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INTRODUCTION. 




IHE author sincerely regrets the inability to trace 
our earliest ancestor in America from his home 
in Holland, where he was reared, and where, 
without doubt, he was born. Regarding the 
time and circumstances of his emigration, we 
also lack data; but the tradition is that he 
came from Holland in one of three ships, and 
settled not far from where his male line de- 
scendant lived and died, leaving a long list to 
follow. All Van Hoosears in America are trac- 
able to him.* The traditional ''Three Brothers" 
story never cast its anchor upon this family. 
Ihere are many names resembling this surname, Van 
Hoosear, which are not related so far as is known For 
six generations, there has been no change in spelling 
bome of the second and third have written it "Vanhoo- 
sear, but in the following generations it has been uni- 
formly written with a capital ''H." 

Our authors of the -Origin of Surnames" have been 

silent as to this name's derivation. "Van" in the Dutch 

language (Holland or Netherlands) is the same as ''Von" 

in German, meaning "of," as Rinear of Hoosear, or 

Muissen a place on the river Rhine in the Province of 

Gilderland This is but a short distance from Arnhem, the 

capitol. The family may have originally lived at "Huis- 

^T{ A P®ij^.^,. called Huissens with the Christian name 

fi? .r^r "^ ^,i^*^^pish the individuals. The tradition is that 

'clt X?"^,, 1? this case was given as a title of rank, being 

the 4th. It is possible that such was the case, for men 

ot high standing and merit were granted the right to use 

van as a prefix to their surname to distinguish them 

from the ordinary men. The name of Hoosier as used in 

the btate of Indiana is purely American, and has no refer- 

nnon Th^^T"i''"^"'V'^^ ^''l"'''^ *^^ ^'■^^ settlements along the Hudson river and 
upon the Island of Manhattan (N. Y. city). The westtnd of L. I. and Conn. 

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4 INTRODUCTION. 

ence to this surname, although somewhat resembling it in 
appearance. The rersion is that its origin is fromhusher, 
because, men of strength, they were considered bul- 
lies, or from their rough exclamation when one knocks 
at a door "Who's yere." In 1555 Emperor Charles 
V. gave his son, Phillip II., of Spain, the Netherlands, 
which embraced Gilderland, etc. In 1G68, France seized 
on Spanish Netherlands. In 1674 England had captured 
her. In 1795 Holland was conquered by France, but since 
1839 there has been general peace there. 

The male inhabitants of the Netherlands are of me- 
dium stature, stout form, and fair complexion. The wo- 
men, tall and handsome, are very domestic in their habits 
and pay most scrupulous attention to the cleanliness of 
their houses. Perseverance and industry are striking 
features of the national character. Th^ male line of th« 
Van Hoosear descendants bear out noticeably the above 
characteristics, as do also the women, excepting in stature, 
they being a little under that of the average female Hol- 
lander. 

The author has never seen the name "Van Hoosear," 
either in scrip or print, spelled identicallj^ as above, except 
it referred directly to some of the descendants of our early 
ancestor from Holland. Very many similar names, how- 
ever, have appeared. In 1874 an association was organ- 
ized at Hudson, N. Y., called "Van Hoesen Association," 
whose purpose was to investigate a certain estate left in 
Holland for the Van Hoesen heirs, as held by tradition. 
In November, 1876, another meeting was held at Hudson, 
at which a report was given by Mr. E. B. Humphreys, 
who had been appointed the Holland agent. An interme- 
diate meeting was held at Catskill, N. Y., in 1875, and 
another at Gent, N. Y., in February, 1876. At the third 
meeting Mr. Humphreys reported that his research in 
Holland had developed that Maretje Jacobs "huisyrouw," 
or wife of Jacob Arends den Hensden, North Holland, had 
left several thousand pounds, which had been deposited 
in the "Weeskamer" (or Orphan Chamber), in 1686, for 
her children. He also mentioned other estates left for 
unknown heirs. The next meeting was held at Hudson, 
in February, 1877, when it was voted to call for the quar- 
terly dues of 50 cents each. [Extracted from circular sent 
out by this association]. The members are said to have 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

numbered over 300. In "American Ancestry," vol. IV, 
pg. 30, appears the ancestry of Wm. S. Van Hoesen, of the 
above society, whose ancestor was Jan Franse Van Hoesen, 
ancestor of all the Van Hoesens in America, whose early 
residence was Fort Orange, which is now Albany, N. Y. 
^ He came from a town in Holland, called Huisen, near the 
' Zuyder Zee. His eight children were Jurian, Jacob, Vol- 
kert,* Anna md., Luykas Gerretsen, Styntje md., Jan Tys 
Goes, Maria md., Hendrick Coenraetse, Catherine md., 
Frank Hardingh, and Johannes. Jurian's son Jan Ju- 
rianse, his son Cornelius, his son Casper, his son Wm. C, 
his son Wm. S., of Saugerties, N. Y., b. 1839. 

The following is a copy of a sketch and record of the 
"Van Hoesen Family," prepared for one of the within 
Van Hoosears, by Wm. S. Van Hoesen, Prest. of the above 
association. 

It is printed at the request of some of the family, 
which think that the Reynier mentioned is the same per- 
son known to us as the ancestor who has been given the 
number 3.: 

"Jan Franse Van Hussum was the first Van Hoesen 
that came to America. Documents represent him, his son 
Jurrian and wife, Volkie Jurriaanse, to have settled at 
Fort Orange and Beverwick (now Albany) as early as 
1645, where he also made several purchases. His princi- 
pal purchase was that of the Claverack land, made June 
5th, 1662, amounting to several hundred acres, lying along 
the Hudson River, above and including the site on which 
the City of Hudson now stands, owned by two Indians, 

one named Pametepiet, (his signature thus, X ), the 

other Tantankenaut, (his mark -—•— •^-',) both being owners 
and commissioned by another Indian, and owner, named 
Sickaneeck, (alias Tunis), Jan Franse Van Hussum' s sig- 
nature was t- He does not seem to write. He died about 
1667, and letters of administration were issued to his son 
Juerian, August 2d, 1703. (Book of Deeds VI, page 199, 
in Albany County Clerk's Office. State of New York, U. S. 
A.) At this time the following heirs were living, namely: 

*Folkert Van Hoesen and wife, Teuntie, sells dwelling house, mill, mill 
dam, &c. to low water mark as far as a place called Kortees Kill being upon 
the Island "Nassaw" (formerly called Long Island) known by name of Red 
Hook, 1749. [Lib. 5, pg. 176, Kings Co. L. Rec'ds.] Johannes Bergen and wf, 
Rachel of "Brookland," Kings Co., on Nassau Island, sells to Cornelis Van 
der Iloeven, of same place, 1721. [Vol. 4, pg. 287, Kings Co. L. R.] 



% INTRODUCTION. 

Jurrian, the oldest son, Jacob, Volkert, Anna, wife of 
Lay Kas Gerrites, Styntie, wife of Jan Tys Goes, Maria, 
wife of Hendrick Coenraetse, Catherine, wife of Frank 
Hardingh, and Johannes, who was an old man, living at 
Claverack in the year 1724. Jurrian, the oldest son of Jan 
Franse, by the laws of premageniture, became seized of 
the land, but amiable petition was made by which he con- 
veyed the lands adjoining the Hudson River, southerly of 
the ferry, to his brother Johannes, and northerly to bis 
brother-in-law, Francis Harding, and wife Catherine, and 
brother, Jacob Jans Van Hoesen. The deed was executed 
7th of January, 17C4, and recorded in Deed Book D, pages 
282: 3, 4 and 5, at the Albany County Clerk's Office, State 
of New York." 

Generation 1st. Jan Franse Van Hussum, came to 
Albany in 1645, married, in Holland, Volkie Jurriaanse, 
both of Holland. He died about 1667, she, about 1703. 
Their children were Jurrian, Jacob, Volkert, Anna, Styn- 
tie, Maria, Catherine, Johannes. 

Generation 2d. Johannes Van Hoesen born in Albany, 
N. Y., md., 1st, Jannetje Jans. Derike, md., 2d, Willimpie 
Vill, June 19, 1709. Children, Jan, Johannes, *Harmon, 
Garret, Jacob b. Aug. 18, 1699, Franciscus b. June 13, 1703, 
Maria b. June 7, 1706, Gerritje b. Aug. 20, 1710. 

Generation 3d. *Harmon Van Hoesen born in Albany, 
md., Goessia — . b. in Albany, N. Y. She d. April 11, 1746. 
Children born in Albany, Jan, Volkert, Kinder, **Hen- 
drick, Luchs, bap. April 17, 1725, ''R. 6." (Record). 

Generation 4th. **Hendrick Van Hoesen b. Albany, 
N. Y., md., in Albany, Cathalina Vandenburgh, b. Albany, 
July 2, 1744. Children, Geesje, b. Albany, Aug. 10, 1746, 
Hendrick, bap. Nov. 6, 1748, was called Van Houser in N. 
Y. State early marriages. Reynier, b. about 1753. In 
Rev. service was called Rynier VanHoser, and afterwards 
Rinear Van Hosean, Van Hosen and Van Usen. He died 
April, 1820, and his wife, Marsey, in the fall of 1827. 
[Then follows his children as we know them, which he se- 
cured from the descendants of the Conn. Rinear). 

The reader will see there is no proof that the Albany 
Reynier Van Hoesen and the Conn. Rinear Vanhoosear is 
the same person, or that he did not spell his name as it 
should be. The above Van Hoesen also states Maria, Rey- 
nier's daughter, was bap. July 27, 1789. See record of her 



INTEODUCTION. 7 

[No. 5] tombstone. Her grandson also says, I have heard 
"her say she was 15 years, 2 months and 15 days older 
than Antionette. Bible record of Antionette says she 
was born Aug. 20, 1806." 

In a volume compiled by L. Van Alstyne, of Sharon, 
Ct., a descendant of Lambert Janse Van Alstyne, pg. 23, 
he states Hilletje Van Alstyne, b. Jan. 5, 1752, m. May 25, 
1776. Abraham, 1st Van Hosen of Stuyvesant Falls, N. 
Y., son of Jurger Van Hoesenand MarritjeBurgert. Their 
children were: William, b. 1777, Maria, b. 1779, Jurian, 
1782, Christyntje, bap. 1786, Johannes, 1789, Abraham, 
1791. He quotes Munsell's, that the above Abraham 1st 
descended from Jan Franse Van Hoesen, the Holland set- 
tler at Beverwyck (Albany), who soon after bought of the 
Indians, land at Claverack, Columbia Co., N. Y., and that 
direct descendants reside at Stuyvesant Falls now. 

A few names are given below which the author has 
found most resembling the Van Hoosear surname: 

Lydia Vanhooser, minor, [U. S. Gen. Stat., 1877-8, pg. 
67]. 

Frank Van Hooser, was P. M., 1881, Mechanicsville, 
O. [Vol. 11, Official Register of U. S.] 

Ga'l Van Hoozer, Rev. War [Archives of Library, Al- 
bany, vol. 1, pg. 226]. 

Van Housen, lot 24656; Van Hosen, lot 39877, and sev- 
eral by name of Van Dusen, etc., appear on the Register 
of Greenwood cemetery, N. Y. 

Garret Van Hooser, Fishkill, N. Y., 5th Reg., 1780 [N. 
E. Hist. M. S. Rev. papers, vol. 2, pg. 352]. 

In the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C, the 
records of 1899 mention John N. Vanhooser, Res. Dade- 
ville. Mo. In Robert's "N. Y. in the Revolution," (which 
copy contains the Wilton ''Rinear," with Van attached), 
there appears three of the name Hoosen, 36 Hoesen, Husen, 
Hasen, Hensin, Hoesin, Hosen, Hozen, Huesen, Huson, 
Huysen, Housen, etc. 



8 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



EXPLANATION OF ARRANGEMENT. 

Each person descending from the settler has a num- 
ber near the left hand margin, and if their children are 
represented, a number opposite near the right hand mar- 
gin refers to their eldest child, and carried forward to the 
left hand margin in the next generation. 



FIRST GENERATION. 



1. TAN HOOSEAR was probably born in Hol- 
land before 1736, and married before 1856-7. Tradition firm- 
ly asserts that this was his home, and that his marriage also 
was consummated while in his native country, or in Eng- 
land, before he came to America. He, with his wife and 
probably children, it is stated, emigrated to America in 
one of three ships, eventually settling with his family 
somewhere on the south side of Long Island; and that he 
followed the occupation of tanner and currier. The same 
traditionary evidence asserts that he had at least two 
daughters, one marrying a Van Rensselaer*, who settled 
on the Hudson River, below Albany, "on the flats,'' and 
the other being unmarried when the only son, Rinear, left 
home at the early commencement of the Revolution. 

The "Van Rensselaer Family," by May King Van 
Rensselaer, N. Y., 1888, states Kilian Van Renselaerswyck 
in America "was a man of character and substance," a 
merchant of Amsterdam, was wealthy, etc. Early in 
1630 he was sent as agent from Holland to make purchases 
from Indian owners, etc. Other purchases were made in 
1637, when his tract of land covered 24 miles in breadth, 
by 48 miles long, containing over 700,000 acres, comprising 
the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and part of 
Columbia. He then came to America to care for the col- 
ony. The Ronton Genealogist remarks that he was a rich 
jeweller, of Dorp, Holland, and that his purchases included 
land on the east and west sides of Hudson River, where 
now is Tro y, Lansingburgh, etc. He says that he and son 

*A family of Van Rensselaers are said to have come to America in the 
vessel with this family. 



FIRST GENERATION. 9 

Jeremiah bought of the Dutch West India Co. miles 
square, but they afterward claimed differently. 

How interesting it would be to know more of the early 
ancestor's history, their traits of character, early life, etc., 
even if only in America. They probably lived through 
the Revolution on Long Island (if this was their tradi- 
tionary home), which was controlled by the British 
government. Even had they a desire to do otherwise, 
it was policy for them to be loyal subjects. To 
live during those times anywhere in the colonies was 
enough, but especially being near the coast made it even 
tumultuous. The reason these families emigrated to New 
England may have been to be relieved from the continual 
wars that the Netherlands were having. Their history 
shows that in the early centuries they were continually 
fighting Spain, France, and England, who, being strong 
enough to do so, seized their possessions. 

The indexes of the records of neither of the following 
offices mention the "Van Hoosear'' name: 

County Clerk's office, at Riverhead, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 

County Clerk's, or Surrogate's offices, at Jamaica, 
Queens Co., N. Y. 

County Clerk's, Surrogate's offices, of Kings Co., N. Y. 

It is not known that any of the following names have 
any relation to this family. 

The extended research by the author has developed 
transactions by several whose names resemble our Wilton 
ancestor. In the early part of the 18th century, "Reien- 
ior Van Hoesen," of N. Y., sole owner of a good sloop or 
vessel, "the Greenwich," 15 tons, for 33 pounds, sells Jacob 
Cowenhoven, "in the outward of the City of N. Y.," and 
"assigns all the Hull of the good sloop or vessel," "with 
the Mast, 'Beem,' Bow sprit, sail Rigging, Anchor Cable," 
etc. "the said Roignior Van Hoosen," warrants and de- 
fends the sloop "for the full term of one year and a Day," 
&c. ("fire, enemies. Restraint of Princes, Perils and Dan- 
gers of the seas only excepted)." Signed, "Ryneir Van 
Hoesen." On May 6, 1732, the witness declares he saw 
"Ryneir Van Hoese" seal, sign, etc. above bill of sale. 
[Recorder's office, N. Y. city, Lib. 30, pg. 278]. 

The records of the Superior Court for Fairfield Co. 
show Justus Bush, of Greenwich, vs. "Rinen Van Housen, 



10 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

of Greenwich, defendant, in an action of debt upon book 
as per writ, dated Jan. 25, 1738-9." An execution is 
granted on a judgment of not sufficient declaration to pay 
defendent's costs, 2£s., 5 s., April 22, 1738. [Vol. 1735-41, 
pg. 250]. Jacob Cadwell vs. Rhinor Van Hose, of Fair- 
field, book acct. Defendent beaten — ordered to pay 2£., 
4s., 6d., April 9, 1741. 

Jarvis Rhods, of Norwalk, vs. "Reneir Vanhose,'' of 
Fairfield, book acct. again Rineir proves he "oweth noth- 
ing" and recovers cost, 1£, Is. Plaintiff appeals. Jan. 5, 
1740-1, Justus Bush again sues "Rineir Van hosen" of 
"Fairfield" on bond, and writ of Jan. 22, 1744-5, for 108£. 
8s. Justus recovers 80i;. [Vol. 1735-41, pg. 262]. He sues 
him again in Nov. 22, 1745, for 160£, and recovers 82i). 
[Pg. t75]. 

"Renear Van hoose" set his hand to a paper to be rep- 
resented in the Provincial Convention to be held in N. Y., 
May 22, 1775. Signed at Brookhaven, L. I., May 17, 1775. 
The province of N, Y. contained many warm advocates of 
freedom, but its capital had so long been the headquarters 
of the British army in America, that many of the principal 
inhabitants had contracted intimate relations with British 
officers and had become devoted to the royal cause. They 
declined to choose delegates to the Continental Congress, 
but instead elected a Provincial Congress* for which their 
delegates were chosen. George Washington was soon 
afterward appointed General of the continental army. 

Of the 2nd Co., of Brookhaven, L. I. [Pg. 45, vol. 1, N, 
Y. Historical Provincial Papers], "Renear or Rynier Van- 
hoose or hoosen" is next found "confined in New York 
State goal [jail] for being a good Pilot since Feb. 14th, 
1776. Congress met, pursuant to an adjournment, March 
1, 1776. The Town Mayor informs Congress that Rynier 
Van Hoosen was taken into custody on March 1st, 1776." 
It was order ed that he be reported to General Lee** [Vol. 

*Upon the news of Lexington, circulars were sent to the committees to 
elect delegates to this convention, which was to meet May 22nd, 1875. It 
adjourned from July 8th to the 26th, then assembled Sept. 2nd, where it 
again adjourned to Oct. 2nd, assembled Oct. 4th, adjourned to Nov, 4th. The 
2nd and 3rd congress met also in N. Y., but the 4th was held at White Plains, 
and while there (July 10, 1776), the name was changed to "Convention of the 
Representatives of the State of New York." The History of Brookhaven 
gives no clue or information of the name "Vanhoosear." 

**General Lee was taken prisoner shortly after this date and, as sup- 
posed, most willingly, as he was found lodging with a tory some 3 or 4 miles 
away from his troops. 



FIRST GENERATION. 11 

V, American Archives]. April 20th, he petitioned Con- 
gress for a release from the "New York Jail" and said he 
had "a wife and six small children" [N. Y. Provincial 
Papers, vol. 1, pg. 285], April 26, 1770, "Rynear Van 
Hoese" again petitioned and still asserted as above, and 
"would be willing to do anything to maintain the Glor- 
ious Cause of America" [pg. 293]. May 6, 1776, he com- 
plains of confinement and styles himself in his petition, 
"Pilot Ryner Vanhousen." May 14, 1776, in his second 
petition, he says, "he has a large family and none to assist 
him but poor wife, and has been nearly three months in 
Goal at the New Citty Hall." He is mentioned as an "offi- 
cer and one who with many others threatened the Goaler" 
[pg. 299]. On September 13th, he "petitions for parole." 
says he is in White Plains Goal, having been confined 
there and in New York for six months. Two days after- 
ward the British enter New York city, and on October 28th 
followed Gen. Washington to White Plains, where a bat- 
tle was fought. The prisoner was removed to Albany. He 
was entered in the Navy Books and was "seventeen months 
passing examination as King's Pilot in the King's fleet," 
"being confined in jail for nearly eight months, continu- 
ally praying and begging for a trial, or to be released," he 
then gets a hearing. Report concerning "Ryner Van Hoe- 
sen" reads, "Whereas, Ryner Van Hoesen hath been con- 
fined in Goal in the state from the llth of February, [1776] 
last because of his being a good Pilot who might, by fall- 
ing into the hands of the enemy, afford aid to their de- 
signs, and it hath been since determined by the convention 
that the said Ryner Van Hoesen ought not to be trusted at 
large, but should be confined within the limits of the City 
of Albany ; and whereas, it is highly unjust that any man 
should be deprived of the means of laboring for the sup- 
port of himself and family when no crime hath by him 
been committed, resolved that the said Ryner Van Hoesen 
shall receive the sum of 7 shillings per day from the day 
of his confinement to the time of his arrival at Albany, 
and the sum of 8 shillings per day from, and after, his said 
arrival until he shall be discharged by this Convention or 
until some further Legislation of this State." [Calender of 
N. Y. Historical MSS. Rev. Papers, vol. I, pg. 498]. July 
18, 1776 Ryner Van Housen was confined in Albany. [Sa- 
bine vol. II, pg. 370.] 



12 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



3.-RINEAII, son of the above Van Hoosear was possibly 
born in Holland about 1756-7 as he was about 19 years of 
age at the time of his enlistment, 1776. Those who knew 
him stated at his death that he was about 62 or 3 years old. 
The first trace we have of him was when he came to Nor- 
walk, Ct. (now Westport) while a lad of 16 to 18 years of 
age. The story of his arrival here in Conn, as related to the 
author by Mrs. Joseph Rockwell, who knew him well was 
told to her by him as follows: "The British were in pos- 
session of L. I. and as they were taking all who would be of 
any service to them, he feared he would be called into ser- 
vice. He said, ' I concluded to leave home and walked 
some distance when I secreted myself in some bushes or 
small wood, being fed for several days by a woman sym- 
pathizer. 1 soon got aboard a boat and went to N. Y. city, 
and from there walked to Westport, sleeping in barns as 
night overtook me.' "On his early arrival he stayed one 
night at the house of 'Old Capt. Burrell'* which was sit- 
uated on the 1st cor. N. East of the new cemetery, N. West 
of Westport village." She thought he was about 17 or 18 
years of age. He told several that the reason of his leav- 
ing his home on L. I. was that he had become alarmed at 
the proximity of war, and thought it best to seek a more 
inland location. From this fact (his running away), by 
severa he was called a refugee. It is said he first hired 
as a farmer to Mr. Chapman, who lived north of the Pop- 
ple Plain Cemetery and brook, where can now be seen the 
foundation, chimney, and some of his favorite lilacs. It 
was said he continued to work there for a considerable 
length of time, which he may have done after his return 
from the army. He enlisted in the latter part of 1776, rep- 
resenting his residence to be Weston, Ct, Soon after 
his marriege, he went to N. Y. state, where he lived for 
years. In his application for a pension, Apr. 4, 181S, he 
states that "he enlisted" from Weston "in the fall of 

*He was father of William and grandfather of William, both of whom 
died there. 



SECOND GENERATION. 13 

1776." [He probably entered service Nov. 21, 1776]. ''In 
the New York line on the Continental Establishment." 
"That he served as Corporal part of the time, and as Ser- 
geant for three years, of which part of the time, he served 
in Capt. Nathaniel Horton's Co., in Col. Henry B. Livings- 
ton's Reg. [U. S. Pension Reeds.] " Rinier Van Hoesen" 
was a private in Capt. Bries's Company, Col, Van Renssel- 
aer's Reg. [Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer commanded the 
fourth Reg., Albany Co. Militia, (2nd Rensselaerwyck Bat- 
talion) Capt. Anthony Bries or Brease was in this Reg.] 
The appointments made Oct. 20, 1775, in the 3rd, 4th, 5th 
and 6th Albany County Regiments were considered as ir- 
regular, and at the request of the County Committee a new 
arrangement was made Feb. 20, 1776, and commissions issu- 
ed accordingly. Under the new arrangement. Lieutenant 
Anthony Brease was appointed captain, in place of Cole, 
resigned. [Archives of the state of N. Y., The Revolution, 
vol. I, pg 499]. "His pension was allowed for three years 
actual service as a sergeant in the New York troops. Rev- 
olutionary war." [Bureau of pensions. Wash., D. C, H. 
Ciay Evans, Com'r., IS'.^S.] There had been a call for 
75,000 men for three years, or to end of the war. To all 
who fulfilled this agreement was offered (besides wages 
and rations) a bounty of $20. and 100 acres of land. The 
officers were to receive 200 to 500 acres. On the last day 
of Nov. 1776, many of Washington's troops time of service 
expired, and not one could be induced to re-enlist. This 
was the darkest day in the history of the Revolution, only a 
little over four months after the signing of the Declaration 
of Independence. In about three weeks after he enlisted, 
Congress recommended a day of fasting and humiliation. 
to be used in imploring God to show favor in this time of 
affliction, "Rynier," "Munchert," and " Harmen Van 
Hoosen" are mentioned as enlisted men serving under the 
above commanders, [pg. 106 " New York in the Revolu- 
tion," 2nd edition], Rynear also appears in the Levees of 
enlisted men [pg, 92 same vol.] He was appointed Cor- 
poral May 24, 1777, and appears to Jan. 1778 as such. He 
probably held that position until Mar. 1, 1779, when he 
was promoted to Sergeant. [Pension Records Wash., D. 
C] He was in the Fourth Reg. "The Line" as "Rinier" 
also "Rynier" [N. Y. in Rev.] Albany Co. Militia, Col, 
Kilian Van Rensselaer — enlisted man — "Rynier Van Hoe- 
sen" [pg. 106]- Rynier Van Hoesen — private, Van Reus- 



14 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

selaer's Reg. in Co. of Bries— found in- Roster of State 
Troops [pg. 499] Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer— the 6th Co. 
newly organized in Feb. 1776, Capt. Jacobus Cole, 1st 
Lieut. Anthony Bries [pg. 264]. In the Comptrollers offi- 
ce, Albany, are original MSS. and Rev. papers. The Re- 
ceipt Roll of Col. K. Van Rensselaers Reg. Albany Co. 
shows £2, 5s. lid. due Rynier Van Hoosear for services, 
was transferred to Bill Smith, and by him signed over to 
John Folsom. The date is absent. The act relating to these 
dues was passed Apr. 27, 1784. [Vol. V, pg. 179.] Due for 
services in Henry D. Livingston's Reg. Dec. 27, 1791 sign- 
ed by "Rinear Vanhoosear" £5, 5s., Id., rec'd. by Jelles A. 
Fonda Apr, 11, 1792. ''Rynier Van Hoesen" "of Ballston" 
Sa., Co. gives Jelles A. Fonda, of Schenectady, power of 
att'y- to demand of Gerard Banker, Treas., of N. Y. 
state, all pay, subsistance and clothing money. [Vol. I, 
pg. 105]. "R. Van Hosse" Sergt. amt. of depreciations 
charged by N. Y. state as having paid the 4th line Reg. 
Discharged Nov. 21, 1779, amt. £18, 2s., 8d., [Vol. XIV, 
pg. 10.] ano her deduction £5, 6s., Id., [Vol. XIV, folio 8, 
pg. 10, 13.] Jelles A. Fonda gives receipt to Treas. for £26, 
Is., 2d., which includes Rinear Van Hoose and others, Apr. 
10th, 1792. Certificate for military service of above. [V^ol. 
IV, pg. 86.] 

He appears on the muster roll of "Capt. Samuel Sack- 
et's company, 4th Reg. N. Y. Battallions."* His appoint- 
ment to corporal was about a month after the burning of 
Danbury. At the time of his promotion to Sergeant, he 
was on the muster rolls dated at Pompton, [Passaic Co., 
N. J.] and his appearance on the muster rolls of Mar, and 
April, 1777. appear to be dated May 6, 1779, at "Stone Ar- 
abia."** This was the year Putnam's celebrated feat was 
performed. The records speak of his discharge but failed 
to disclose where or when, but it was probably about Nov. 
30, 1779, as this would be the termination of his three 
years, and in N. J,, as he often told of his trouble in get- 
ting home from there, he walking all the way. In 1779 
Washington's headquarters were at Middlebrook, N. J. 
AVhile in the army, like the rest, he suffered severely, and 
never recovered from the hardships be endured. He said 

*The Van Hoesen record states he entered the Co. May 24, 1777, for 3 
years. Made Sergeant May i, 1778, and discharged Nov. 21, 1779. 
**Probably Montgomery Co., N. Y. 



SECOND GENERATION. 15 

the best dinner he ever had consisted of his allotment of a 
piece of steer's hide about the size of his hand, from 
which, after he had removed the hair, he made a soup. 
About two years after his probable discharge (latter part 
of 1779, and about eight months before the war ended) he 
married. "Ryner Vanhoosen" married at Norfield, [Wes- 
ton, Ct.] by Rev. Samuel Sherwood, "Mercy or Marcy" 
Taylor, [daughter of Jonathan Senr. and Lois (Coley) Tay- 
lor^ of Poplar Plain, Westport, Ct.,] Jan. 31, 1783. [Wes- 
ton Parish Reed., pg. 131.] "Rhyoneer Vanhooser" and 
wife renewed their covenant.* 

July 28, 1782, at Norfield (Weston Ct.) "and the same 
day baptized their son, David. [Weston P. Reed., pg. 14] 
About three and half years later their next child was born 
at Ballston, Sa. Co., ]N. Y., where they resided. His wife 
used to tell of the many good times he had with his com- 
panions and brothers in Masonry while there; and Alfred 
Taylor, his wife's cousin, related to the author his appear- 
ance as he drove into Poplar Plains from Ballston, with 
a beautiful pair of horses hitched to a wagon, something 
he had never seen before. 

"On May 16, 1794, a number of Masons met in the 
town of Ballston" to whom, the same year, a charter was 
granted. This was called Franklyn Lodge, No. 37, "For 
a long time the meetings were held at the residence of one 
of the members, on the south-west corner opposite the 
present church at Ballston Center, and after the death of 
this brother, they were held at the residences of the dif- 
ferent members until 1834, when the warrant was forfeit- 
ed and declared to be not revisable." Mar. 22, 1805, an- 
other Lodge was chartered at Milton Hill, "with the title 

*A person of good moral character might receive, or renew the covenant 
of baptism, confessing the same creed as members of churches in full com- 
munion, and affirming intention of becoming truly pious in heart, and in 
life, and would have the privilege of presenting himself and children for bap- 
tism, also grandchildren, apprentices, even slaves, by giving pledge for their 
religious education. Those owning covenant were considered church mem- 
bers, except not permitted to come to the communion table, and were pun- 
ished the same as whole covenanters. The baptism was usually soon after 
the birth of the child, especially with the children of ministers, deacons and 
other prominent men, generally before they were a week old. Young persons 
seldom owned covenant until they had become parents and had their chil- 
dren baptized. Previous to 1650 great watchfulness was exercised to admit 
only such as gave visible signs and evidence. [Hist, of Fid. Co., pg 752]. 
The owning and renewing, together with the "Halfway covenant" was 
abandoned in New England just before 1800. 



16 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

of Friendship Lodge, No. 118." In 1821, this was removed 
to Ballston Spa., but in 1835 this charter was surrendered. 
On June 3rd, 1842 the Grand Lodge granted the present 
Franklyn Lodge, No. 90, its charter and reported in favor 
of returning to this Lodge the property of the late Frank- 
lyn Lodge, No. 37. From these old records we find that 
"Rinear Vanhoosear" was Tiler of this Lodge from Jan. 
1795, (apparently the fiirst one) continuously to Feb. 4th, 
1800. The fees for this door guard-duty, and for the loads 
of wood he furnished (probably as fuel for the Lodge 
meetings) were mentioned, and the accounts kept in 
pounds, shillings and pence. Feb., 1800, his duty stopped 
and also mention of him, which was probably when he 
returned to Conn. 

" 'If in thy bosom dwells the sign, 

Of charity and love divine', 

Give to Him thought or 'dutious tear,' 

Thy friend and brother has filled his sphere." 

While at Ballston, the}^ lost their first born. They 
then removed to Conn., and settled for a short time at 
Poplar Plain, where now (1903) resides Mr. Pidgeon. From 
there he removed to "Dumplin Hill," Wilton, about 50 or 
6C rods north of the present residence of Charles Sterling, 
where he died. His wife Mercy, of Norwalk, signs a deed 
of land which came to her from her mother, Lois Taylor, 
deed, at Poplar Plain, ("Crow Swamp") Apr. 15, 1815. 
[Vol. 22, pg. 415, Norwalk Land Records.] "Rinear Van- 
hoosear" and wife Mercy, of Wilton sell their right in 
land at Poplar Plain, that was set out to said Mercy in the 
distribution of her father, Jonathan Taylor's est.. May 
25th, 1818. From this deed is reproduced Rinear's auto- 
graph. It is recorded in vol. 23, pg. 85, Norwalk Land 
Records. After his return from Ballston one of his 
branches of industry was shearing sheep in which he was 
an expert. 

The act of Congress, Mar. 18th, 1818, gave to all hon- 
orably discharged soldiers of the Rev. a pension. He 
made application and was placed on the pension roll June 
10th, 1819. He was to receive back pay from Apr. 4, 1818. 
His annual allowance was to be $96. He probably never 
lived to receive the money. The amount paid was $99.73. 
[Pension roll, pg. 514, Senate Doc. U. S.] The cause of his 
death was a stroke of lightning. A heavy thunder storm 
had nearly passed over, when as he opened the door, a 



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flash came which killed him in the doorway; he fell back- 
ward on the bare floor dropping his pewter bason filled 
with corn, which he had in his hand intending to feed his 
chickens. His wife had gone down the cellar but hearing 
something heavy fall on the floor and the scattering of 
the corn hastened to the scene, to find her husband dead 
before her. Some have supposed that a scythe hanging 
near the door attracted the lightning to the place. [The 
scythe appears in his inventory.] Mrs. John Belden (then 
a young lady) while on a visit to Westport described to 
the author the terrible electric storm, and as she was a 
near neighbor to the dec'd., remembered fully the circum- 
stances and time as April IGth, 1819. A descendant gives 
the date as the 17th. The night after his death Alfred 
Raymond a son of Piatt Raymond, of Hurlbutt street, Wil- 
ton, and William Sturges sat up with the remains, as was 
the general custom at that time, and until very recently. 
On this night there occurred a remarkable incident. 
About mid-night, when all had become quiet, a scratching 
was heard in the chimney, when down came a cat [the 
house was a rude one story and attic, the roof being low, 
wa,s easily secured by trees] rushed out of the fireplace, 
and flew upon the sheet that was placed over the corpse. 
The sudden appearance of the cat, entering where it did, 
and its behavior while there, scared the young men terri- 
bly, and who with difficulty drove it out of doors, leaving 
them with open ears and eyes. They had no trouble in 
keeping awake the rest of the night. 

His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Sylvan- 
us Haight who was then pastor of the Congregational 
Church, at Wilton Ct. He was buried in the Poplar Plain 
cemetery, but just where, there is some dispute. Alfred 
Taylor said his remains lay near the center of the yard 
just north of the Taylor's; but Wm. Knapp, also an aged 
resident, when a small boy, remembered passing the yard 
soon after the grave was dug and was told by his father, 
Chas. that the deep hole (he stood on the fence looking in- 
to) was a grave for Mr. Van Hoosear, who was killed by 
lightning. He was returning from Westport with his fa- 
ther who had a load of lumber. This statement would in- 
dicate that the grave was near the road fence, and as he 
stated, near its eastern center. 

At a Probate Court held in Norwalk, Sept. 17, 1819, six 



Ig VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

months were allowed the creditors of the est. of "Renear 
Van Hoosear," late of Wilton, to present their claims, per 
order of Wm. G. Betts, clerk, Nancy [Mercy] Van Hoos- 
ear, Administratrix. [Norwalk Gazette, Oct. 6th, 1819.] 
See application for letter on est. of ''Ryner Van Hooser," 
Norwalk Pro Rec. Vol. Ill, pg. 225. 

The following inventory was returned to the court 
Sept. 22nd, 1819. 1 halt, 12cts, mixt. surtout, $1.50, 1 vest, 
25cts, 1 pr. woolen trousers, lOcts, 2 pr, linen do. lOcts, 2 
old shirts, 50cts, 3 pr. woolen stockings, 75cts, 1 pr. old 
shoes, 12cts, 1 small leather apron, 12cts, 1 small Bible. 
25cts, 1 bed, 2 pillows and bolster, $6.00, 1 bedstead, cord 
and under bed, $1.50, 1 bed and pillow, $7.00, 1 bedstead, 
cord and underbed, $1.00, 44^ pr. linen sheets, $9.00, 4 pr. 
pillow cases, $1.20, 2 table cloths, $2, 4 napkins, $1.00, 
1 old chest with drawers, 75 cts, 1 small table, 75 cts, 
candlestick, 25 cts, 1 small looking glass, 12 cts, 3 kitch- 
en chairs, 50cts, 2 wood bottom do., 20cts, 1 pair small fire 
dogs, 25cts, 1 shovel and tongs, $1.00, 1 trammel, 75cts, 1 
cooking pot, 25cts, 1 dish kettle, 12cts, iron tea kettle, 5o 
cts, 1 spider, 25cts, 2 tin pails, 40cts, 1 tea pot, sugar bowl, 
milk cups and cups and saucers, 50cts, 5 small silver tea 
spoons, $2.00, 3 plates and pepper box, 12cts, 5 old knives 
and forks, 40cts, 3 tea spoons, lOcts, tin measure lOcts, 
1 small jug, lOcts, 1 sad iron, 12cts, 1 old candlestick, and 
1 platter. Sets, 1 stone pot and earthen do., 25cts, 1 bread 
tray, lOcts, pr, low cards, lOcts, 2 old wheels and reel, 
$1,00, 1 sieve, 12cts, 1 corn basket, 20cts, 5 blankets and 
bed quilts, $5.00, 2 old bags, 25cts, hay fork, 12cts, 1 old 
axe, 25cts, butter tub, lOcts, 2 sheep, $2.00, 1 small swine. 
$5,00, meat cask 50cts, small tub, 12cts, Additional inven- 
tory, 1 swine, $4.00, 1 mowing scythe, and snath, ^2.00, 1 pr. 
sheep shears, 62cts. Amt, $04.18 Seth Taylor and Elip- 
halet Taylor, appraisers under oath. Marcy Vanhoosear, 
administratrix. [Pro. records Norwalk.] 

The name of "Rinear*' and its variations appears to 
be very peculiar, and its mention seems not often repeated. 
An early record is found in Doc. Hist, of N. Y., pg. 57, 
when "Reinier'' is used as a given name in a list of sold- 
iers who embarked for New Netherland (N. Y. city) Apr. 
1660. Rliinear Wortendyck (whose ancestors were from 
Holland) born 1800. [Mail and Express, Sept. 2, 1899.] 
The first generation has also many different spellings of 
this name. The weight of this ancestor is estimated to be 



SECOND GENERATION. 19 

about 140 lbs., had a spare face and something of the 
build of his son David, who was a well-developed, rosy- 
cheeked man, and when young was remarkably fine look- 
ing. 

His wife, Mercy, lived at the "Dumplin Hill" home a 
few years after her husband's death and Dec. 4th, 1834, 
she bought, for $240, from Stephen Morgan, the Van 
Hoosear homestead, which consisted then of only two 
acres with buildings. On Oct. 23d, 1828, she sold it to 
"Pamelia Vanhooser" and her husband, David, for the 
same amount, and the same day took a mortgage and 
agreed to board with them at fifty cents per week, 
when well, and more if needing special care. When $200 
of this was gone, her Taylor relatives concluded they 
would care for her, when she went to Poplar Plain and 
lived until her death, with her sister Polly, in a house 
east of highway north of, and near the 1st left-hand road 
south of Poplar Plain Church. '* 

After her little fund had been spent, she is said to have 
been very ill-treated by those who were to look after her, 
and became very fretful. She was of small stature, 
and would never weigh over 125 lbs. 

Her granddaughter, Louisa, somewhat resembled her, 
it is said, in looks. She had a small face, prominent 
cheek bones, dark complexion, and other mutual charac- 
teristics. 

Among the recollections of her grandson, David N., 
was his visits to see her before she had left for her Nod 
home. The old blown down barn where a few sheep found 
room to run under, and the taking away from the cat a 
robin it had caught, were incidents he never forgot. His 
last trip there he made with his elder sister, and when 
he assured his parents he would have no trouble about mak- 
ing the journey (from their home near Wilton Congrega- 
tional Church), he was allowed to go, but when he arrived 
at the foot of ''Pitts Hill," he turned to the left, and after 
a distance of a half-mile, he discovered his mistake and 
returned to go up the hill. Another remembrance he re- 
lated of her while she resided at Nod was that, one night, 
hearing a hen squall, she repaired to the hennery, and, in 
the dark, she put her hand in the nest, where the noise 
came from, and finding something there, she immediately 
grasped it, and bringing it to the light, found it was not a 



20 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

cat, as she had supposed, but a skunk. She was remon- 
strated with to lay it down, but she so feared it would 
escape, hesitated ; she was nervously excited, and suffer- 
ing from shaking palsy, gave the animal a good stirring 
up, which did not add pleasantness to the situation, or 
agreeable and delicate perfume to the surroundings, so 
she placed it on the ground, and her son killed it. 

She died near day break and was buried the same day 
by Isaac Hurlbutt, Wilton's first undertaker, 1833 or '4 
(probably the latter). Her children were not notified of 
her death. She is probably buried with her husband. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

Children oi Rinear and Mercy (Taylor) Van Hoosear. 2. 

3. I. DAYIB YAN MOOSEAE, baptised at Norfield, 
[Weston, Ct.,] July 2Sth, 1782 [Norfield Church record, pg. 
55]. He was probably but a few daysold when his parents 
removed to Ballston, and, when 5 to 10 years of age, he was 
killed by the falling of a girdled tree* that fell on him 
while he was a short distance from the house calling his 
father to dinner, and he was probably buried there. 

4. II. MEZEKIAH YANMODSEAK, born at Ball- 8 
ston, N. Y., Jan. 8, 178G. He was brought up at his uncle 
Eliphalet Taylor's in Wilton, and married, while yet a 
minor, (Nov. 3d, 1805,) PSiebe, (dau. of Samuel, and grand- 
dau. of Gardner Olmsted, all of Chestnut Hill, Norwalk, 
Ct.) b. Aug. 17th, 1788, and died, April 2d, 1860. Was 
buried at Poplar Plain cemetery. 

His daughter states he followed the sea for several 
years, sailing as Captain several times to the West Indies, 
his wife making one or more trips with him, and while 
aboard she strung a line and hung out some white clothes 
on ii to dry, when her husband saw them, had them re- 
moved, for it was a sign of distress. He was a wild youth. 

Much has been said about his having a title to prop- 
erty at the lower end of Water street, Norwalk. Soon 
after his marriage, being yet under age, he received a 

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they have rotted and blown over. 



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THIRD GENERATION. 21 

deed resembling a mortgage, but no conditions were men- 
tioned, from Samuel Burrai, who bargains, sells, &c., 
to "Hezekiah Vanhosear," for $115, land, with a small 
dwelling house on it, about 30 rods, west of the harbor, near 
the ship yard south of heirs of Obadiah Liscat, deceased, 
bounded east by the channel, north by the heirs of Josiah 
Thatcher, deceased, west by highway, being 3^ rods. May 
8th, 1806, Samuel Burrai, for $100, quitclaims the same 
property back, July 2nd, 1807. 

Josiah Thatcher, of Norwalk, for $18.56, deeds Heze- 
kiah Vanhoosear "two rods in front, running back to the 
channel," being part of an undivided right of the heirs of 
Josiah Thatcher, deceased, bounded north by said Van- 
hosear, west by highway, south by the ship yard or com- 
mon land. Aug. 7th, 1809, Thos. T. Thatcher sells to him 
his undivided right in the above land for $21.67. Aug. 
12th, 1809, Partridge Thatcher, of Poundridge, N. Y., for 
$10.09, to said "Vanhosear," 19 ft. in front and running 
a parallel line to the channel it is contained in undivided 
land belonging to heirs of Josiah Thatcher, deceased, is 9 
rods in front, next the road running to the channel, 
bounded north by Vanhosear's land, south and west by 
highway or common land, east by the channel or harbour. 
Sept. 25th, 1809, Samuel Gibbs, for $20.18, deeds Hezekiah 
Vanhoosear undivided land running back in parallel lines 
to the channel formerly owned by heirs of Josiah That- 
cher, deceased, being 9 rods in front, running to the chan- 
nel, bounded the same as above. Sept. 8th, 1810, Joseph 
Street to H. Vanhoosear, land, with small buildings there- 
upon, 3 rods, more or less, on the west bank of Norwalk 
harbour, bounded north on land formerly owned by Obe- 
diah Liscat, east by channel, south by ship yard, and west 
by road, Dec. 3, 1811, he gave in a certificate that he con- 
tributed to the Methodists, which excused him from pay- 
ing to the Congregational Society, of Norwalk, his Church 
"rates.'" [Congregational Society records, of Norwalk, 
Feb. 12, 1812. 

He sells Isaac Jennings land west of the channel, Feb. 
1, 18 L5, and for $110, to Isaac Jelliff land with buildings 
at Saugatuck, and at Old Hills, Feb. 1th, 1815. For $700 
sell Hezekiah Whitiock land bounded east by the chan- 
nel, north by Nappy Nipton, &c., Sept., 1815. This prop- 
erty was attached, or at least about one-half acre of it 



22 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Feb. 37th, 1817, deed recorded, Aaron Sanford, of Read- 
ing, Conn., sells him, ''of Norwalk," 20 acres in Bethel, 
Sul. Co., N. Y , Lot No. 39 in Great Lot No. 1, Harding- 
bergh Patent in subdivision No. 4. [Reg'r office of Sulli- 
van Co., IN. Y., Vol. 2, pg. 558.] This was located in 
the north east corner of the town about seven miles 
northeast of the now Bethel village. Stevensville P. O. 
is in Lot 39, about 3 miles northwest from Bushville. 
About 1818 he started with his oldest son (it is said, 
then only a small boy) for his new home. They 
probably went over the same route that his brother David 
did. [see No. 7.] Their emigration was apparently very 
near each other, Hezekiah passing on to Monticello, per- 
haps then to "West Settlement," or now Maple Wood, and 
thence to Lot 39, a distance of about 50 miles from Hudson 
River. Here he built a log house and rudely prepared for 
his family and not many months thereafter returned to 
Norwalk for his wife and five children.* Two places are 
given of David R.'s birth (in Oct., 1820), at Norwalk and 
Bethel, which latter is probably more correct. 

The town was set off from Lumberland, 1809. The first 
white settler went there 1798. The Hurds, Jacksons, Hol- 
listers, Heacocks, Careys, John Sherwood and Matthias 
Fuller were from Conn. [Hist, of Sul. Co). 

The N. E. Section was settled 1805 to 1808, and only 
nine families were there as early as that, excepting two 
or more from Conn. [Hist, of Sul. Co]. Stephen Northrop, 
of Salisbury, Conn., went to Bethel, 1807, but the sur- 
roundings were too wild for him, when he turned back, 
and when on the other side of the Neversink River he met 
his neighbor, Zalmon Hawley, with his young wife and 
two small children ; they persuaded him go back with 
them — a three days' journey brought them to a deserted 
cabin which they at once occupied. [Hist, of Sul. Co], 

In Lot No. 39 probably the rest of the children were 
born, the last about ten years after. (Another report 
gives account of his last off-spring's birth-place as Arca- 
dia). This was a wild country to take his family to. The 
land was wooded, and unbroken, and his first planting 
was between the stumps and roots. They suffered from 
the fear of wild animals. The children and stock were 

*His first and Seventh child had black hair, but the rest had sandy. 



THIRD GENERATION. 2$ 

kept near the habitation for fear of being seized and car- 
ried away. While the husband was away "Aunt Phebe" 
saw a fine, strong, year-old attacked at mid-day by 
wolves, near the house, and dragged some distance, in 
their starved condition, to secure their part of the prize. 
She closed the door, and, looking through the window, 
saw them kill it. She dare not go out to try and scare 
them for fear she might be the next victim. She told of 
hearing a noise, in the evening, on thecellar sticks, which 
were set up against the outside cellar opening, and going 
to the window, saw several pairs of eyes directed to her, 
which looked like balls of fire. They had meat in the cel- 
lar which it was supposed they came for. 

The distance to mill was several miles away and even 
an early start in the morning brought his slow ox-team 
only home at night with the flour. It was a long, wooded 
road, and on one occasion, near night, he was passing 
through one of these secluded jungles, a panther* dropped 
from a tree, hitting another in its fall, which caused the 
oxen to jump sideways, and the animal landed squarely in 
the road beside the cattle, but not on their backs ; it then 
crawled off in the bushes. The driver said after that he 
looked upward and onward the rest of the journey. 

After his purchase in the town of Arcadia, Wayne 
Co., he and family removed thither. 

This was another long and tiresome journey, over one 
hundred and fifty miles with a team drawing the family 
and furniture over rough hilly roads. He settled about 
two and one-half miles from Newark. Here he found a 
country more cleared, but he was compelled to again build 
a log house. 

Eventually he built a frame one not far from this sec- 
ond log house. He also removed a third time, and secured 
some fine "peppermint land" and began the raising of 
peppermint, from which to distill the oil, for which he 
received about $4 per pound. It was planted in rows, cul- 
tivated the first year, but would run out in three years. It 
was cut when in bloom and allowed to wilt, then put into 
a large boiler (in this his son fell in and was severely 

*A short distance from Bethel village was situated "Painter Swamp," 
which seemed to be the retreat of the animal from which it received its name. 
The Hist, of Sul. Co. gives account of one, Nelson Croeker, encircling tha 
swamp and found seven distinct trails leading into it. [Pg. 131]. 



24 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

scalded) and the oil extracted. July and August were 
seasons of excitement there, for once started it was con- 
tinued to the end of the season. His usual crop was from, 
twent}' acres, and many acres for his neighbors, and em- 
ployed a dozen or more men. After he had come to Wayne 
Co., his son, Nathan O., began learning a trade at New- 
ark, but contracted small-pox. The ninth day they 
brought him on a bed to his home. The mother took him 
in, and all of the children (David, Hezekiah, Jr. and 
Susan) then home, had it. 

Sept. 28th, 1840, his residence was Arcadia, N. Y., 
where The Wayne Co. Mutual Ins. Co. gave him a policy. 
According to papers he left it would appear that from the 
same 5^ear, to 1854, he kept a grocery store at Havana, 
formerly Tioga, but now Schyler Co., N. Y. 1849 his wife 
removed to Conn,, where she resided with her brother, 
Nathan, "Uncle Nate" Olmstead, at Chestnut Hill, Nor- 
walk, until within a few years of her death. 

Her return was with her daughter Susan by canal boat 
to Albany, and thence by steamboat to New York and 
Norwalk. The canal boat fare was one cent and a quarter 
each, per mile, and board. This consumed a week's time. 
The daughter told an incident of their journey. The Cap- 
tain of the canal boat proposed they stop and pick huckle- 
berries, to eat, which they did, and passing over a little 
hill, came directly into an Indian camp or settlement. 
When huckleberrying was over, they came to the boat. She 
received a divorce from her husband in 1853, at Bridgeport, 
Conn., at which time his residence was Arcadia, March 1st, 
1851, he gave a chattel mortgage to satisfy a judgment of 
$34.44 (probably in Wayne Co., N. Y.) on G, 87-100 acres of 
"peppermint land"' with a cow and yearling, in which 
appears his autograph, he then being over 65 years old. 

Sept. 24th, 1852, William Cleveland, of Norwalk, 
writes a letter to him, and expresses fear that he will be 
turned out of door by the Danbury and Norwalk R. R. Co. 
and seeks his assistance, to help him establish his claim, 
October 29th, 1852, H. Van Hooser quitclaims the above 
Cleveland— this property, April 15th, 1853, Moses Wilson, 
attorney for said Cleveland, caused a deposition to be 
taken of H. Vanhoosear, at Arcadia, N, Y., in which he 
swears he bought of Josiah Thatcher two rods wide in 
front of Partridge Thatcher, bounded north by land of 



THIRD GENERATION. 25 

^'Joshiah" Thatcher, south by heirs of Jonah Thatcher, 
being 19 ft. front. That he also bought of Thos. T. That- 
cher 2 rods, 5^ ft., bounded by above Partridge T., south 
by Samuel Gibbs, west by highway, and was the owner 
until he sold it to William Cleveland. Oct. 29th, 1852, 
Vanhoosear appoints above Attorney Wilson his attorney 
with power to act for him, and agrees to give him a two- 
third interest for pay. May 7th, 1858, Hezekiah Vanho- 
sear, of Norwalk, Conn., deeds the exact property he 
bought of Joseph Street (Feb. 12th, 1812) to Jabez Gregory 
and Wm. I. Street of the firm of Gregory & Street, on 
conditions that he has given his note for $56 to them, sign- 
ed A. Vanhosear. He returned to Norwalk before May 7, 
1858, lived there a short time and was drowned near the 
beacon at the entrance of Norwalk harbor. The circum- 
stances of his death will probably never be known. He 
lived in an old house on Comstock's, now called Keyser's, 
island. He evidently had returned from Norwalk, as a 
few groceries were found in his boat. His apparent 
friends left him lying on the shore all night and not until 
the next day were his relatives notified of his death. He 
was buried at Poplar Plains cemetery. The above subject 
used to counsel-at-law in petty cases, and his reasonings 
were said to be very judicious. He weighed about 150 
pounds. 

5. III. "MAllIAM,"* born June 4th or 5th, 1791, at 
Ballston, N. Y., 1st "married about 1805," Isaac Jelliff, son 
of [James and Lydia (Blatchley**) Jelliff, of Norwalk 
(Saugatack),] born Oct. 8, 1787. At the time of the mar- 
riage of Mariah she was probably with her parents at 
Poplar Plain, or had removed to "Dumplin Hill," Wilton. 
His first purchase was from Samuel Pearsall, of Norwalk, 
on the west side of Saugatuck River, 44 rods, for $55. Aug. 
1st, 1807. They probably lived in Norwalk until Feb. ll^th, 
1815. (then called in deed, "of Norwalk") when he sold 
land at Saugatuck, and "Old Hill," the former with build- 
ings, for $250, possibly where he lived. In June, 1815, the 
records speaks of his not being in Norwalk. 

It is said they first settled in "Fulton Settlement." 

*The Van Hoesen record states she was baptized at Ballston, July 27, 
1789. 

**Daughter of Benj., of Norwalk. 



26 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Jan. 20th, 1816, he bought a small farm in Liberty, at 
"Broadhead Pond," from there he removed to the Willis 
Farm, now known as "Roswell Hodge Farm." 

From there he moved to ^'Thunder Hill,"* in the town 
of Neversink. 

They built a log house in a wild country, a hemlock 
forest. Years after the settlement, the author's father 
measured one of the trees which had fallen on the ground 
near this primitive home, and it measured 105 ft. long, 
with top broken off. The early exhausting, laborious, 
solitary, and hazardous circumstances at that day and 
place in Sullivan Co. must have been seen, and expe- 
rienced, to be appreciated. "Aunt Maria" was a woman 
full of determination, as the following instance will show: 
Her nearest neighbor, living a quarter of a mile distant, 
was sick, and she was detailed to visit her. She was de- 
tained until after dark, and while returning home, she 
passed through the woods, when spat came something 
from the tree top, falling heavily in the road a few feet 
behind her ; knowing the probability of the animal, she 
was scared to unconsciousness, but somewhat regaining, 
she crawled on her hands and knees to her home, and, it 
being muddy, she put in a rather divtj appearance, The 
next morning they went to the spot, and saw where a 
panther had struck in the road, but missing the game, it 
went its way. 

Mr. Jelliff made his will, Feb. 13, 1834. He died, Dec. 
6, 1836, and was buried on his own farm on Thunder Hill. 

After her husband's death, she married Aug. 17th, 
1839, Henry** Misner, of Woodburne, N. Y., [son of Peter 
and (Bush) Misner], born Dec. 31, 1784, She died at 

*This place is mentioned as early as 1795. [Hist, of Sul. Co., N. Y.] ; 

**Sometimes called Hankey as a nickname. 

"Henry Misner, who was still living (1873) at Woodburne, states that after 
suits of ejectment had been instituted but not determined, Hardenbergh, with 
little respect to law, distrained property and forcibly dispossessed the occu- 
pants " [Hist, of Sul. Co., pg. 233]. He also said "Gross in 1806 forcibly 
set the family of Jas. Bush out of doors, and kicked Mrs. Bush as she went, 
although but three days previously she had given birth to a child which she 
then held in her arms. In the absence of Jacob Maraquat, his family was 
served in the same way." Mrs. M. also had a young child, and was dragged 
from the house by the hair of her head. She died in a few days afterwards. 
Peter Misner and others stood their ground. 



THIRD GENERATION. 27 

Fallsburgh, N. Y , Nov. 29th, 1871, aged 80y., 5m., 35ds. 
[tombstone], and he, Jan. 20th, 1874, at same place. There 
were no children by this union. He owned a saw-mill 
which was situated on the Neversink River. 

It is said he was quite an influential man, and he, 
with others, projected, in 1830, a turnpike from ElJenville 
to Woodbourne, which was built eight years after. 

In this connection there appears a tragedy. In Quin- 
lan's Hist, of Sul. Co., N. Y.; and also in the "Legends of 
the Shawangunk," is given the general circumstances of 
the Hardenbergh murder. Gerard "Gross" Hardenbergh 
was son of Johannis and Nancy (Ryerson) Hardenbergh. 
He lived at Stony Ridge, Ulster Co. Valley. The people 
of this valley had bought their land under the Beekman 
Patent, but "Gross" (who had been disowned by his 
father for his vicious ways, etc.), laid claim to these pos- 
sessions, including the beautiful Neversink River. The 
settlers firmly believed the claim of "Gross" was a fraud, 
and when he tried and did eject some of them by the most 
brutal force, he became verj' odious to the whole settle- 
ment. He frequently took the law in his own hands, and 
personally put them out.* Of course he was bitterly op- 
posed and soon became excited to frenzy and continuing 
more violent, they concluded his death would be a public 
blessing. A plan was adopted to remove him. His visits 
to collect the rents are said to have been regular, and at a 
secret meeting, a party of a half-dozen were chosen to 
secrete themselves along the route he usually took, which 
was, at the time, Avell wooded and narrow, following on 
the bank of the Neversink River, above the now Prince's 
Hotel, Woodbourne, and passing along the valley to Has- 
brouck. The firing of a gun was a signal for all to return 
immediately to their homes. He started about sunrise, 
Nov. 23, 1808, to go up the river. As expected, he came, 
the discharge of a gun was heard and all left for home. 
Only one shot was made, but it proved fatal, the horse 
was frightened but caught some distance from where his 
rider received the deadly bullet, and found 'when the sun 
was about an hour high. Of the party who had letired 
to their homes, all but one (Henry Misner) had the load in 
their guns they carried from their home. The secret was 
kept until after his death, when his widow frequently told 
the story to his friends. He wanted to tell the story him. 



28 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

self and intended to do so when he was certain death was 
near, and once he was very sick and all thought he could 
not live, except his wife, who said until I hear him tell 
aloud that he was the one who removed the man of terror, 
he will not die, which he did not, and recovered. In his 
last sickness he waited too long and died, not knowing 
the world would know the secret. The murdered man 
was 75 yrs. of age and weighed 250 lbs. After his death 
the trouble ended, and they found no difficulty to settle 
with his heirs. The fear of Gross Hardenbergh was over, 
but time proved he had left blood to repeat itself in ugli- 
ness in a grandson, Cornelius W. Hardenbergh, for on the 
same road, at Hasbrouck, about three miles above, Dec. 
20, 1840, after much dispute about land, &c., he went to 
the house* of Anthony Hasbrouck and brutally killed him 
by stabbing, kicking and shooting him. Before he got to 
the house he knelt down and prayed that all trouble might 
be settled without murder. His father and himself had 
become drunkards, although he had become temperate 
and made a profession of religion. He was hung July 14, 
1842. 

The author suggested, while standing on the site of the 
first murder, to erect a memorial slab, not in memory of his 
goodness, but to mark the exact spot where the tragic 
event happened, but was told Fallsburgh contains, now, 
many very respectable residents, descendents of the mur- 
dered man, and it would be hard to bring this "Harden- 
bergh War" before the public again. 

6. IV. RHODA, born at Ballston, N. Y., March [20] 
13th, 1794, married, March 8th, 1814, Wm. Fitch [son of Wil- 
liam and Mary (Guire) Fitch, formerly of Fairfield County] 
born March 21st, 1790. He lived (and was possibly born) 
on Chestnut Hill, Wilton, and (may have) removed from 
there to "the west," about 8 miles east of Exeter Center, 
N. Y., to which place, in 1840, he removed. She died 
March 17th, 1859, 4 o'clock, a. m. On Oct. 2d, 1859, he 2d 
married Mary H. Smith, born June 17th, 1815. He removed 
to Shuyler's Lake, Otesego Co., in which county he died 
May 25th, 18G7. His occupation was a farmer. 

7. V. DAVID, born at Ballston, N. Y., Dec. 13th, [81] 
179G. While there he had the small-pox but ever after 

*It is a large stoue House which was standing 1900. 







■&.txy— 



THIRD GENERATION. 29 

was afraid of it. When 8 years of age he contracted the 
habit of taking snuff (a practice at that time very preva- 
lent and popular), which he indulged in until his death. 
After his parents' return from Ballston, a few years, he 
was hired by Daniel Nash, Sr., until he married his daugh- 
ter, at South Salem, N. Y, ("David Ben Hozier") [Van 
Hoosear] Oct. 29th, 1816, married '^Sally Hanford," both of 
Wilton [South Salem Church records]. She was of Nor- 
walk, born August 20th, 1787, the widow of Elnathan 
Hanford, who died Nov. 19th, 1809, aged 24, (son of Hez- 
ekiah, Jr.).* She died at Grumman Hill, Wilton, Conn., 
May 14th, 1817, in her 30th year, and was buried in Nor- 
walk's first cemetery, where her misleading headstone is 
inscribed, "Sarah wife of David V. Hoosen." The circum- 
stance of her death (at their residence on Grumman Hill, 
Wilton) was from catching cold from an open window^ 
leaving a child but two weeks old. Dec. 13. same year, he 
deeds land in Crow Swamp (near Poplar Plain), being the 
late property of Lois Taylor, said Lois being his grand- 
mother. 

Mr. Van Hoosear worked for Dr. Joseph Chapman 
(son of Phineas), and for a joke he sent him in a hurry to 
a closet for his saddle and, when he opened it, be was 
very much frightened and ran down stairs, exclaiming, 
"what is in that closet?" It was an articulated skeleton 
that hung there. He was second married by Rev. Mr. 
Smith, at Wilton, Conn., March 23d, 1818, to Miss Parmela 
Orumman [daughter of Smith and Sarah (Abbott) Grum- 
man], of Grumman Hill, Wilton. Born July 13, 1802. 

In the early Fall of the same year he emigrated, with 
Luke Fitch (whom he hired), "to the west,'* and settled 
on a wild, uncleared and solitary farm in Sullivan Co., N. 
Y. He took a load of goods and tools with him, drawn by 
a team of oxen and a borrowed cart, which latter he took 
back "36 miles" to Newburgh, probably, (after having 
reached his destination), and sent it to Norwalk by boat. 
He sowed a piece of rye, stayed about 3 weeks, and started 
on foot one morning for home, and at the end of the 3d 
day, at night, was with his family on Grumman Hill. In 
November (or soon after), 1818, he hired a man, with 
horses, to take a load of furniture, and he (with his wife), 

*b. July 24, 1753. He, s. of Hezekiah, b. 1722, d. 1812, ag. 90. He, 3. o£ 
Saml., b. 1674, d. 1751. He, 3. of Rev. Thus., the first pastor in Norwalk. 



80 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

again started for his new home in the west. This was in 
the town of Thompson, two and one-half miles east of 
Monticello, which is the county seat of Sullivan Co., N. 
Y., and about three-quarters of a mile north of the Cochec- 
ton and Newburgh turnpike. Daniel Lee, of Ridgefield, 
Conn., April 21st, 1806, owned Lot No. 44, in Great Lot No. 
13, in the Hardenbergh Patent. This consisted of 214 
acres of wild land, and even at this day only a few acres 
are cultivated. At the above date Lee sold the south half, 
107 acres, to Seth Banks and wife, Sarah, also of Ridge- 
field, Conn. Nov. 2d, 1814, Lee sold the other half, 107 
acres, to Daniel Nash, Sr., of Norwalk. This is the tract 
occupied a few years later by the above Van Hoosear, and 
owned by his father-in-law, who held it until his death. 
His sons, on Sept. 11th, 1833, sold it. He evidently gave 
his note for this property to Daniel Nash, Senior, for 
among his effects was found the original paper, dated at 
Norwalk, March 16, 1818, and which states that seven 
years after date he promises to pay 5=400 with interest from 
date "it being for value received." ''Sind Seald & Deliv- 
erd in Presents of Danl Nash, Jur. and Rebecca Nash." 
The deed describes the corners as having bounds of trees 
"cornered" [squared to the corners of this lot] and also 
facing the adjoining lots, as layed out in the patent and 
marked on these hewn places the numbers of each lot 
opposite. Lot No. 44 was situated on an intersecting, 
even now unresidented and little traveled highway from 
the above turnpike to Thompsonville, then known as 
"Thompson's Mills," or, in 1804, this vicinity was called 
Albion.* 

It needed nerve and will power to start with a young 
wife and hired man for the wild west and perform the task 
safely. It took undoubtedly several days, probably at 

*This name was derived from the name given to an ancient residence of 
Wm. A. Thompson, from whom the town was named and incorporated in 
1803. His residential home he named "Albion Hall," which is situated on au 
eminence overlooking a branch of Neversink river and little settlement, and, 
although dilapidated, now shows it to be a roomy, substantial, architectural 
mansion, considering its location and time of its erection. VVm. A. Thompson 
was born at Woodbury, Ct., 1762, s. of Hczekiah and Rebecka (dau. of Isaac 
Judson), studied law under John Canfield, of Sharon, Ct., 1784 He was 
licensed to practice and opened an office iti Norwalk, Ct., but soon removed 
to Horseneck. In 1794 he bought land in Sullivan Co., now town of Thomp- 
son, and in 1795 commenced improvements in the Great Lot No. i in the H. 
Patent. By his three wives he had 16 children. He died in 1847. 



THIRD GENERATION. 31 

least a week or ten days to make the journoy with a slow 
ox team. He crossed the Hudson River at Newburgh, and 
probably followed the Cochecton and Newburgh turnpike, 
passing through Coldenham, Montgomery, Bullville, 
crossing the Shewangunk Kill Stream to Bloomingburgh, 
a historic town — "remembered by Washington Irving" 
— early one of the "out west" borders of civilization, 
and having constant trouble from hostile Indians. 
Passing over the mountain four and one-half miles, and 
over the Bashers-Kill River to Wortsborough, then called 
"Mamakating Hollow," in the town of Mamakatin, also a 
historic place, and first settled a century and a half ago 
by Holland friends. Continuing a mile or so you come to 
the highland "Barrens," described as a rocky, stony, 
scrubby, huckleberry, rattlesnake section, (embracing now 
the Sullivan Co. Club,) and continuing about five miles 
across it, south of Lord's pond,* through Rock Hill, thence 
to the banks of the beautiful Neversink River, crossing 
the "Great Pine Bridge," (a marvelous white pine arched 
wooden structure, completed 1807 yet standing as firm as 
ever), to Bridgeville,** on toward Monticello, but stopping 
two miles and a half and turning toward Thompsonville 
(at this turn was a tavern kept by Reuben Allen, formerly 
of Compo, Westport, Conn.), about three-quarters of a 
mile and they were on Lot No. 44. 

Jonathan Hoyt, Jr., of Norwalk, and wife, Sarah (Mid- 
dlebrook), of Wilton, 1803, journeyed, with four children 
to this section, about a mile west of the Neversink, which 
consumed 9 days. Nehemiah Smith and wife, of Mid- 
dlesex" [a parish between Norwalk and Stamford], re- 
moved to South East Put. Co., and, in 180:^, bought land and 
removed to near "Pleasant Lake," now called "Kiamesha 
Lake," where he settled. His brother-in-law, Amos 
Whelpley, lived with him. He brought two children and 
a nephew, Smith Benedict, Titus Lockwood, Elind Lind- 
ley and Joseph Godfrey, with families, went with them. 
They also crossed the Hudson River, at Newburgh, passed 
over the same turnpike to Montgomery, stayed one night 
on the Barrens, probably their last night stopping place 
before their arrival at the lake. 



*Wm. Sears lived near here in 1804. 

**Lewis Hoyt, bro. of Jonathan, lived here in 1803. 



32 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

When Van Hoosear and family arrived at Lot No. 44, 
they hired a room for a few weeks,* when the neij^hbors 
made a *'Bee," as it was called ; offering their services, a 
log cabin, 16 by 18, was soon erected, which had but one 
room, exclusive of a milk room, and lighted by one win- 
dow (six small lights) on the north side, and a hemlock 
door on the south. Their second load of Wilton furniture 
consisted mainly of a table, cupboard, bureau,** 8 chairs, 
2 beds, &c. The following January an infant son was 
with them but a short time when it withered away. A 
puppy, "Bose," took the child's place with the mother for 
three months, and grew so fat he couldn't walk. In No- 
vember, following, they butchered hogs and hung them 
outside the dwelling on the projecting ends of the logs 
that made the cabin ; in the night the dog became very 
uneasy and was let out, when he grappled a bear, who 
was nosing about the hog-killing spot. The dog started 
for him and he fled ; after following him for some dis- 
tance, returned, covered with blood. Mrs. Van Hoosear 
stated to the author that every evening could be heard 
from their door, the non-inviting sound of wild animals, 
fully as near the house as she cared to listen and appre- 
ciate. Opposite the house was a hugh jungle and swamp 
where these animals often had their serenades to the dis- 
comfort of this family. In 11)00, as we stood on the site of 
the old home, I listened to the spot where she most fre- 
quently heard these sounds in the jungle and then native 
forest (now a cleared, rocky pasture), but not a sound 
was heard, they were all dead, like the Wilton settlers 
who heard them. This was truly a pioneer's life. 

Jake Brush (colored), married **01d Dark," a servant 
of Ebenezer Abbott, Jr.*** Jake lived west of the Lewis 
Barnes place, at upper Stony Brook, on Grumman Hill 
road, Wilton, Conn. His son "Bill" went to Sullivan Co. 
and iiired to David Van Hoosear, and he sent him in the 
field to dig potatoes, which was somewhat against his 
will. He sauntered down and began his digging, they 
were very large, and be soon became interet^ted, when 
straightening up his aching back, he beheld, but a few 

•Possibly nt ilic Allen tavern, that bcii>^ t!ic nearest liouse. 
•''This suftjrcd SCI from the joltin;; of the spriniT'-^s cnrt ami wagon, it had 
holes worn completely throu;^h it. 

•••Grandfather of Permcla Van Hoosear. 



THIRD GENERATION. 38 

feet away, a black bear sitting on a stump watching his 
movements. He left without excusing himself, and at a 
better rate of speed than when he came. The History of 
Sullivan Co. gives many bear-killing adventures, and in the 
late past years several are reported to have been seen in 
even the town of Thompson. One was seen in Monticello, 
1850, but escaped. 

Montice lo, now the county seat, in 1804 had no house 
there nor even a line of marked trees to that point. The 
above named History quotes Graham's Magazine, in de- 
scribing the situation of the village above mentioned, in 
1835, "everything around bore the impress of recentculti- 
vation struggling with the rudeness of primitive nature;" 
"the plow was guided between unsightly stumps — in all 
directions was the crouching roof of the log-hut" * * * 
"they were often serenaded by the distant howl of the 
wolves." Samuel F. and Paul Jones, of Goshen, Conn., 
founded the place. Mrs. David Van Hoosear was so im- 
pressed with a certain pair of bars, the exact situation of 
which is somewhat disputed, as the author remembered it 
was on Main street, about midway of the "Park or Green" 
in front of the Court house, others think it was in front of 
their log-hut. She said "I could go right to that pair of 
bars," seventy years after she was there. Sept. 1, 1819, 
Lewis Smith makes an agreement with him to farm let 7 
acres rye and wheat that shall be harvested the next year. 
Dec. 19, 1819, Leir Barnum receipts his tax for that j'^ear. 

1820 is spoken of as the great beach nut year — millions 
of pigeons were there feeding on these nuts. They were 
often so numerous they obscured the sun for hours and eight 
to ten two-horse wagon loads passed over the turnpike 
daily and the birds sent to New York. Hogs ran wild and 
fatted on these nuts. Deer were abundant and were fre- 
quently seen feeding on their Winter grain fields. Van 
Hoosear found a deer's horn in the raspberr}^ bushes in 
the garden. The nearest neighbor was three-quarters of 
a mile distant. In the wood near by a chopper was pass- 
ing to his home after dark, without a fire brand (which it 
was the custom to carry), and the next morning only his 
legs and feet were left undisturbed, the rest of the eata- 
ble portion had been devoured by wolves. The conclu- 
sions were that when the jjack came for him, he backed 
up to a tree and had killed six of them, which were found 



34 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

near him, but his ax flew out of his hands, as it was found 
some distance away, and they then killed him. Mr. Van 
and wife became tired of this pioneer life and concluded 
the country was too wild for them, and, in the Winter, 
they started again with heir oxen and wagon for the east. 
They reached the Hudson River and attempted to cross 
on the ice, but were told it was dangerous then, and in the 
morning would probably be sufficiently frozen to bear 
them over safely. But they had set out for Connecticut, 
and full of determination, they were anxious to proceed, 
so attempt it they did, and when well on to the ice, it gave 
way and one ox went into the water. They succeeded in 
unyoking the other, and let him go. He then sold the 
other and hired the goods and family delivered on Grum- 
man Hill. They arrived, January or February, 1821, the 
wife carrying her second child (6 months old) in her arms. 
Seth Whitlock seemed to be his advisor and "well wish- 
er" in a letter to him at Wilton, he says he is sorry he 
didn't stay out there with them — and referred to his leav- 
ing with him his old gun, sickles, etc. March 23, 1822, 
Seth and Chloe Whitlock, of Thompson, writes he is sorry 
that he has gone back — the things are sold. 

Remaining there until Spring, they removed about 100 
rods northward of the present residence of Levi O. 
Brown, in Hurlbutt Street, Wilton, which spot is 
marked by an old well. In the Fall of 1821 he 
removed to the last residence, of Harmon Gilbert, 
Hurlbutt street. He removed to the "Harken Place," sit- 
uated west and south of the site of the First Church, in 
Wilton, where he lived at the time of the "September 
Gale,"* when it blew in the windows which they tried to 
cover with carpets, but without avail, they then went to 
the cellar. Hatting was flourishing in town, and he was 
in the coloring department. He then hired out until with- 
in a few years of his death. He removed to the Isaiah 
Gregory homestead (the first house on the left, west of the 
John Comstock homestead), and from there, April 1, 1822, 
to the present home (1902) of William Sturges. In his 
accounts, Hawley Olmstead is credited by team moving, 
April 8, 1821, 31^ cents, probably to move him to 
"Nod ," in the north part of the town, where he spent the 

*S'--})t. 3, 1S21. Tliis Wc'is on training day. Rev. CM. Selleck says the 
afternoui) lijid be-on dark and about sundown wind and rain was at hand— it 
spent itself about midnight oft" the Mass. coast. 




DAVID VAN H005EAR HOMESTEAD (NOD ',W. ViEW, 1894 



THIRD GENERATION. 35 

rest of his life. Feb. 15, 1843, D V H contracted with Wm. 
B. Smith to build his house where the old one stood, 
with basement 22x24 feet, main part, 10 feet posts, finish 
basement except all sashes, lay second story floor, make 
stairs outside door "plain siding and joint chestnut shin- 
gles, etc., except securing the timber and enclose the 
building, all for fOO and two days, work. Agreement left 
with S. Godfrey. His academic education was limited, but 
having much experience and being very observing, he had 
completed an extensive knowledge of human nature and 
the common affairs of life. He was very ingenious, a 
good farmer, hard worker, and imprudently exposing him- 
self to all weather, seldom missing a day. He was re- 
markably healthy, never employing a physician for him- 
self, until his last sickness, which originated from a cold, 
leading to a fever and pneumonia. Fond of children, he 
always humored them as far as he thought consistent, 
and then didn't fail to chide them. Each had their own 
tools, but his was to be let alone. He was a man of medi- 
um height, weighed about 150 pounds, full, round face and 
generally jovial. He plowed all summer for Dr. Chap- 
man, and the whip wore out his shirt on the shoulder, 
pressing so long against it. A free thinker, bold talker, 
close dealer, wanted cash for what he sold, cared nothing 
for show, felt proud of carrying "Old Style along with 
him, never wore a beard of any kind, and, at death, 
although 74 years old, his hair was black. He usually 
evaded talking upon his pedigree, this being, as he claimed, 
not important to him. Went to War of 1812 (two or three 
months' tradition) as substitute for Uriah Taylor, of Nor- 
walk (now Westport), Conn., as private under Abraham 
Youngs, commander. Period of service, Sept. 9, 1813, to 
Sept. 14, 1814. [Conn, men of Rev. p. 123.] He was sta- 
tioned at or near Fairfield, Conn., and would have applied 
for a pension if his name had not appeared on the roil as 
Uriah Taylor, which he answered to. He was father of a 
child born every month in the year excepting July. His 
son George E., is said to most resemble him. When right 
he usually maintained his ground, and on one occasion he 
heard some hounds after a fox, and, knowing where the 
animal would come, he prepared himself with a club, and 
surely he came through the barway where he was, and he 
dispatched him within a short distance of his door. Some 
time after the hunters came to him and claimed the fox, 



36 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

when he said: "If you want the honor of killing it, give 
me two dollars, and take it." They proposed taking it 
without. He informed them it had become foxy and if 
they attempted it he had such good success he would try 
again. They saw his determination and gave him the two 
dollars. 

He related an incident of himself, that, when a small 
boy, after being severely corrected by his mother, he went 
down in the field to his father with a comj)laint against 
her. His father seemed to sympathize with him, 
took a shilling from his pocket, gave it to him, saying, 
"Take this money and sue her." This was so unexpected: 
that he returned home and said nothing more about it. 
According to his account book in 1829 he received in May 
for his work 50 cents per day; 1833, 62 cents ; 1837, for 
mowing and cradling, 75 cents ; 1844 he took rye, 75 
cents per bushel; potatoes, 31 ; corn, 50 ; butter, 1 shilling 
per pound ; tallow, 10 cents. 

"The fashion he never would follow," 
Or try to put on any style; 
But owing a dime or a dollar, 

He paid it, when due, with a smile. 

His words were but few and well chosen ; 

'Twas clear that he meant what he said ; 
He was jovial, not heated, or frozen — 

And calm was the life that he led. 

He did not belong to the meeting, 

Was proud of his work on the sod, 
The children were glad of his greeting, 

And some people said he was odd. 

He died at "Nod," the 20th of April, 1871, and was 
buried at "Hillside cemetery," Wilton, in a plot he had 
previously ordered prepared and fenced. 



MY GEANDMOTHER VAN. 

Grandmother was born in the year 1802, 

And was noted for being very neat ; 
She always wore a pleasant smile, 

And her friends so glad to meet. 
With many cares she stepped about 

To mold white loaves of bread. 
To sweep the room, and feed the hena, 

To weed the garden bed. 




Perinela Orinninaii (Mrs. David Van Hoosear.) No. 7. 



THIRD GENERATION. 37 

How many stockings has she knit ? 

Learned how to weave and spin, 
While yet a child — I wonder what 

Her playtime coald have been? 
What could her children, small, have done, 

If she had never learned 
To make the cheese and twist the yarn, 

And golden butter churn ? 

A maiden diligent among the wool, 

The flax that she has wrought. 
For to her husband's home her share 

Of well spun linen brought. 
Then worked from day to day, she 

Met with courage what befell 
To keep her household and to guide, 

And rear her children well. 

I'm thinking, now, of my Grandmother's visits — 

Theyv'e been pleasant ones to me — 
But when I gaze upon her face. 

And furrowed lines I see, 
I think of the trials and sorrows, 

Borne with patience ; the strife. 
The toil and partings, the care, 

That have mingled in her life. 

A son has moved to the far off west, 

And one was killed by the train. 
Death took from her a handsome boy, 

Another — Charles, his name ; 
A daughter faded from her sight, 

An infant child had left its mother. 
But all the rest were left to honor 

My talkative, dear Grandmother. 

Her anxious thoughts, can any one describe, 

Her burden of care and love 
Of thirteen children to her sent 

From the children's Heaven above? 
Her husband was taken and she was left — 

She now is nearing eighty-seven. 
But when life has left her house of clay. 

There's rest for her in Heaven ! 

— D. H. Van Hoosear. 

Parmela Van Hoosear, nee Grumman, died in Nor- 
walk, Conn., March 8, and buried March 12th, 1891, at 
Hillside cemetery, Wilton. 



38 VAN KOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

Children of Hezekiah and Phcbe (Olmsted) Van Hoosear. 



8. I. JULIA ANN,bornatNorwalk, Conn., Nov. [45] 
7th, 1807 ; married 1st, Nov. 1, 1827, Smith Pinney, born 
Dec. 18, 1801, died March 26, 1854. Married 2d, about 
1855, John J. Pinuey (brother of above). No children. 
Residence, 1861, Freedom, Cateraugus Co., N. Y. In 1869 
she writes from China, N. Y. 

9. II. STYLES, born at Norwalk, Conn., May 7th, 
1809 ; married Alvira Lee. She died with consumption, 
former residence Carbondale, Pa., but was last heard from 
at Double Day, Luzerne Co., Pa. A daughter was adopted 
into this family, 

10. III. SALLY MATILDA, born at Norwalk, [57] 
Conn., May 3d, 1812; married 1st. Cyrus Riddle. Married 
2d, 1847, William Jennings (son of John), born 1822. She 
died at Toledo, Ohio. 

11. IV. ADELIA, born at Norwalk, Conn., Jan. [61] 
15, 18U> ; married Aug. 18, 18 — , Emerson Clapp, born Jan. 
15, 1803, died March 15, 1853. She died Dec. 27, 1848. 

12. V. NATHAN OLMSTED, born at Norwalk, [65] 

Conn., April 26, 1817 ; married White, residence 

New York state, later Toledo, Ohio, but 1886 Cambridge, 
Ohio. He served in the late war, had narrow escapes, 
taken prisoner, but made his escape. He signed his name 
Nathan O. Van hoosear. 

13. VI. DAVID RINEAR, born Oct. 2d, 1820, at [66] 
Bethel, Sullivan Co., N. Y.; married Caroline Whiteing, 

born Oct. 25, 1820 ; died before 1888 ; res. Fulton, Rock 
Co., Mich. He wrote his name in 1858 '' Vanboosear." 

14. VII. SUSAN CAROLINE, born at Bethel, [71] 
Sullivan Co., N. Y., March 6, 1823; married. May 21, 1854, 
Levi Osborne Browne* [son of Abner and Hannah (Thorp) 
Brown], born Jan. 18, 1820; res. 1900, Hurlbutt st., Wilton, 
Ct,; occupation, stone mason and farmer. 

♦He first m, Emily Piatt (daughter of Joseph) of New Canaan, Ct., Nov. 
19, 1840. [N. C, Town Records.] 



FOURTH GENERATION. 39 

15. VIII. HEZEKIAH,b.atBethel,SullivanCo., [73] 
N. Y., April 23, 1828; m'd Liddy Reed ; resi. Quincy, Branch 
Co., Mich. (Signed his name Vanhoosear,) 

Chil. of Isaac and Maria (Van Hoosear) Jelliff. 5 

16. I. ANTOINETTE MARIA, ''Mariah," born in [77] 
Fairfield Co., Ct., Aug. 20,* 1806; [Family Bible] married 
about 1824,** at Thunder Hill, Sul. Co., SamuelCarpeiiter, 
(Son of Benj.) born at Milton, N. Y., Mar 10, 1803. 

This family has a very interesting but mournful his- 
tory. At the time of the Mormon excitement, in May 1839, 
he with his wife and seven children started for Nauvoo, 
Hancock Co., 111., to join the Mormons there. They start- 
ed from Thunder Hill, N. Y. Lain Brundridge drove a 
team with this family to Wilkes Barre, Pa. From there 
they went to Johnstown, Cambria Co. Through Indiana 
and Illinois to the Mississippi River, they travelled by 
train. From there they were transported by steamer to 
jNauvoo, (which is on the east bank of the Mississippi, in 
one of the westermost counties of 111.) arriving there 
about the middle of June, 1839. At this time there were 
no houses in Nauvoo, except Joseph Smith's which was 
built of stone. They all built shanties, with floors and 
roofs of straw. They stayed there about two weeks when 
Mr. Carpenter bought a hundred acre farm, for one dollar 
an acre, about two miles from there in town the of Olive 
Green, in the same Co. He built a house on it and re- 
mained there seven years (to 1846). While at this home 
three more children, Abigail, Nancy and Benjamin, were 
born. The eighth child died in the fall of 1844.*** June 
27, same year, Joseph Smith was shot by a mob while 
jumping from the jail window where he was confined. 
Antoinette, the mother, died Nov, 10, 1846, in Hancock 
Co., 111., and was buried at " Masadonia, 111." Nancy, 
the tenth child, died before 1846, an infant. Now the 
father and seven children remained. In the spring of 
1846, he sold his farm and they started with three pairs of 
oxen, two cows, ten sheep, a year's provisions, with wag- 
gon the Redding Circuit M. E. Ch. records is found: That Isaac Jelliff 
and wf. Maria of Norwalk, had a dau. Antynet, b. Aug. 4, 1806. 

**Another report: "I think in the spring of 1826." 

***Another acct., she died at Council Bluff about two years after. 



40 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

ons and tent, to make their way to Fort Madison, across 
the Mississippi River. Passing on over the prairie, they 
travelled through the wilderness to Council Bluffs. At 
this place there were 5,000 Mormons. They camped there 
until Sept., when Mr. Carpenter married, 3d, Clarissa 
Tiittle,* and they all started for Salt Lake City. 

While camping in their wagon on the banks of the 
Missouri River, 40 miles west of Council Bluff, he died. 
This second wife, or widow, was soon to be a special wife 
of the new leader, Brigham Young, and it further devel- 
oped that " all of us girls '' four of them, Rhoda, Julia A., 
Elizabeth and Antoinette, were to be the same. They held 
a convention and it was unanimously voted that the song 
should be "Backward, turn Backward." Their intention 
was discovered, and of course opposed by all, more par- 
ticularly by the stepmother, but they entered into the 
escape with determination, and at last they stole away^ 
carrying what they could for their comfort. They took 
two teams of oxen, wagon and cow; the girls driving the 
teams and caring for everything. One day, driving until 
after dark, coming down a hill the wagon pole dropped 
from the ring and ran into the ground. They blocked the 
wheels, chopped the earth away with an ax they had, 
loosened the tongue, hitched on and resumed their journey 
eastward. 

This act of leaving the Mormons was a bold and dan- 
gerous action, but they would trust themselves with the 
savage Indians rather than the servitude and action they 
were soon to encounter. They were unwilling to bear the 
slavery of these rulers. It was a tedious journey but 
they eventually reached Council Bluffs. Rhoda Ann then 
left the rest of the girls and went to Missouri to her sister 
Lydia who had been left behind. She stayed there 
through the winter and in May the two sisters walked 50 
miles to Council Bluffs, through the Indian village, and 
stole their brother " Bennie " away from Jerome Benson's 
place where he had been " put out." To do this required 
strategy. The sisters went to visit him, staying over 
Sunday (knowing Mr. and Mrs. B. would want to go to 
church) they volunteered to care for '• Bennie" while they 
went. As soon as they were well out of the way, they 

♦The Tuttle Gen. gives no Clarrissa who md. Carpenter. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 41 

took him away from the house, at which the little fellow 
at first protested, wanting to go home, but having so en- 
tered into the plan they pushed forward. They went to a 
solitary and lonely, previously secured refuge, beyond the 
probable search. Here they stayed all night, and in the 
early morn they started for the Indian camp beyond. It 
took several days before they arrived there, and when in 
sight, several dogs came to greet them. Bennie was afraid 
of them but they told him they wouldn't bite him; they 
came on and one of the girls talked to them in the Indian 
dialect when they became acquainted. They were then 
returning to the sisters they had left. 

The Indians were very kind, helping them along until 
at last they joined their sisters, but still hundreds of miles 
from their grandparents and other relatives, and their 
former home. 

They wrote their grandmother, Misner, of their con- 
dition, begging help to return. Their uncle, Benjamin 
Carpenter, volunteered to assist tiiem, went there and 
brought them home. All had become interested in these 
orphans escape, and upon their arrival the sympathy of 
the neighborhood was aroused, and large numbers visited 
them anxious to see the returned Mormon children. Their 
stories of the privations, trials, etc., they had endured, 
together with their general appearance, told of the distress 
they had experienced on their long journey. A relative 
who visited them but a short time after their return re- 
marked that no one could visit them without seeing they 
had experienced ser:ous trouble and exposure. Little 
Bennie showed suspicion and shyness, not yet appreciat- 
ing that he was now among friends, he would steal away 
in the corner and go to sleep. All were bronzed by the 
sun, and their faces showed sad experiences. Their dialect 
had changed and one of the girls having been among the 
Indians so much, had grasped many words used by them. 
They considered the death of their parents their redem- 
tion, for had they lived they would probably never have 
returned. They frequently alluded to the friendship of 
the Indians, and when with them had no fear of being 
captured by the Mormons. Samuel Carpenter while with 
the Mormons, was drafted into the army, but he probably 
was so enthusiastic in Mormonism, he prevailed on his 
son to take his place. Many of these facts were kindly 



42 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

given me by '* Little Bennie " of Hasbrouck, and Mrs. 
Khoda A. Mance, who was one of the girls above mention- 
ed and who was living a few years ago at Ellenville, N. Y. 
Samuel died about 1846, near Council Bluff. 

17. II. CURTIS BEACM, born at Norwalk, Fair- [87] 
field Co., June 20, 1810; married Aug. 28, 1836 Abigail 
Reynolds, [dau. of Reuben and Abigail (Groo) Reynolds] 
born Aug. 6, 1814, res. Hasbrouck, N.Y., occupation. Farm- 
er. He died Jan. 2, 1882. She is alive, March 1901, and 
resides at Hasbrouck, N.Y., with her son Isaac. 

18. III. RHODA ANN, born Nov: 6, 1813, in Fair- [91 J 
field Co., Ct., married Aug. 17, 1839, Isaac B. Tyrrell [son 
of Joseph B. and Sophia,* (Besley) Tyrrell] born Mar. 2, 
1815, died Oct. 3. 1886. She died July 3 4, 1856, in Sullivan 
Co., N. Y. Last res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

19. IV. DATID RYNEAR, born May 3, 1823, in Falls- 
burgh, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Died April, 1826, in same Co. 

Chil. of William and Rhoda (Van Hoosear) Fitch, (6.) 

20. I. ANNA MARIAH, born Aug. 10, 1815. Md. [95] 
June 23, 1833, Martin Freer Merritt, (son of Caleb**) born 
Oct. 19, 1812. He married 2nd Ester A. Gillett, [dau. of 
Deming and Theodocia (Warner) G.] who died May 15, 
1872. He died at Fallsburgh, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1890. Occu. 
Farmer. Last res. Hasbrouck, N. Y. 

21. 11. ESTHER MARY, born Oct. 27, 1818, married 



*Her ancestor, Besley, was a French Huguenot. He and wife migrated 
from France to England shortly after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 
1685. They had three chil., James, Isaac, (a grad. of med. coll. in Eng., prac- 
ticing there) and Mary — two latter unm., James md. Cornelia De Forest, of N. 
J., res. N. Y. city, where their son Oliver was b. Sept. 22, 1741. He was 
present at Phila., 1776, at the first reading of the Declaration of Independence, 
shipped from there to N. Y., and was caught by a "Press Gang" and taken on 
board a British man-of-war. His uncle Isaac sent a substitute and he was re- 
leased. He md. Eleatheer Cheesman, of L. I. They settled at North Castle, 
Westchester Co., N. Y. Their children were Isaac, b. Nov. 5, 1769, Mary, 
Oliver, Jr., James, Coles, Samuel, Cornelia, Bartholomew, Elizabeth (md. 
Thads. Gray), Sophia, b. Feb. 24, 1790, m. Joseph Tyrrell, Susannah. [John 
G. Gray, Atty. at Law, Ellenville, N. Y.] 

•*He is said to have served in the War of 1812, and after returning, re- 
moved with his wife to Medina, Ohio. He had a son Caleb and the above 
Martin F., the latter having been cared for by an aunt of Caleb, and she so 
hid him away that when they was ready to move to Ohio he could not be 
found and they went without him. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 48 

1st at High Falls, N. Y., Apr. 19, 1836, Tennis Clearwater, 
[Son of Abram and Lanah (Van Luven) C] born at High 
Falls. N. Y., Feb. 22, 1819. He died Oct. 25, 1879. Occu. 
carpenter. Res. Fallsburgh, N. Y. No children. Married 
2nd, June 23, 1881, David L. Adltins, born Feb. 22, 1821 at 
New Pultz, N. Y. [Son of Lewis and Ruth (Freer) Adkins) 
Occu. Farmer. Res. Woodbourue, N. Y. She died Oct. 
29, 1895. 

22. III. NATHAN, born Sept. 7, 1820. Married [105] 
1st, Jan. 1, 1844, Charlotte Cummings (dau. of James.) 
One child. Married 2nd Apr. 10, 1857, Sally Ann Horton, 
[dau. of AVm. and Polly (Vancort) Horton] born Aug. 5, 
1823. Occu. Farmer. He died Feb, 24, 1896. Res. Schylers 
Lake, N. Y. 

23. IV. LUCRF/riA, b. Sept. 26, 1822. Married [107] 
Eleazer Boweu. His res. 1855 West Hartwick, Exeter, 
N. Y., 1859 Otego, N. Y. Her res. Cooperstown, N. Y. 

24. V. SUSAN, born Mar. 6, 1824. Married about [110] 
1840 Peter Countryman, born 1816, died Aug. 28, 1878. She 
died Sept. 26, 1881. 8 children. 

25. VI. ANTOINETTE, b. Mar. 6,1826. Married [118] 
1st Jasper Purple, occu. Carpenter. One child. Married 

2nd John Lester Niles, [son of Simeon and (Root- [119] 

enburgh) Niles] born Sept. 17, 1824, Methodist minister. 
Three children. Married 3rd, John Dietz. Married 4th at 
Liberty, N. Y,, Wm. Beebe [son of Aaron and Phebe Jane 
tClark) Beebe] born Sept. 5, 1836 in Orange Co., occu. 
Farmer. Res. 1900, Hasbrouck, N. Y. 

26. VII. WILLIAM, born Mar. 5, 1828. Died unmar., 
June 26, 1850, buried at Exeter Center, N. Y. 

27. VIII. ABRAM, born Sept. 25, 1830. Married [122] 
Feb. 14, 1853, Elizabeth Tan Hoosear (dau. of David, see 
No. 40) Two children. He formerly resided at Exeter, 
N. Y., but came to Wilton, where he married. He settled 
at Branchville, Ridgefield, Ct., where he lived several 
years, but purchasing a farm at Norwalk, settled there, 
where by strict attention to dairying and truck farming, 
he has become wealthy. 

28. IX. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 26,1833. Married [124] 
Oct. 10, 1854, Dana Pope (son of Allen). He died. Res. 
Morris, Otsego Co., N.Y. Her res. New Lisbon, N.Y. 1900. 



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44 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

29. X. MARTHA JANE, born Oct. 17, 1836. Died 
Dec. 10, 1838. 

30. XI. LEWIS, born at Otsego, N. Y. Married[126] 
Oct. 13, 1860 at Edmestown, N. Y. Mary La Vaiich Reed 
[dau. of Wm. and Sarah (Cook) Reed] born at New Lisbon, 
N. Y., July 4, 1840. Res. Fly Creek, Otsego Co., N, Y. 

Cliildreii of David and Sally (Nash) Tan Hoosear. (7) 

31.1. DAYID NASH, born May 1, 1817, at sun- [138] 
down in the S. W. room of a house about 3 rods N. W. of 
the present residence of Seth L. Grumman, at Wilton. Ct.* 
Married Nov. 1, 1837, at Norwalk, Ct., by Rev. Dr. Hall, 
Phebe Fillow [dau. of Lewis P. and Lydia (Morehouse) 
Fillow, of Norwalk, see No. 373, "Fillow, Philo, and 
Philleo Genealogy," compiled by the author] born Apr. 5, 
1815, died Feb. 4, 1870. He married 2nd, Feb. 38, 1873, 
wid. Sarah Ann Banks, nee Stratton, of Bridgeport, Ct. 
She was born Nov. 3, 1814, died June 1, 1888, and buried at 
Bridgeport, Ct, He had a very distinct memory of events 
occurring in his early life. He remembered the " Septem- 
ber Gale " of 1823, and that he was suffering with whoop- 
ing cough at the time. He remembered seeing the people 
who left N. Y. City (in the time of the great epidemic of 
cholera there) as they passed Westport, and on moon 
light nights he has watched them pass the house where 
he lived. The burning of the "Lexington" on L. L 
Sound, Jan. 13, 1840, when he lived on Chestnut Hill in the 
house now owned by H. B. Coley. Very soon after the 
news of the burning of the above vessel was spread, and 
he saw in a few days one of the victims enroute through 
Westport. The full story of this awful catastrophe was 
dreadful. He often told of his being catechised with the 
rest of the school on Saturday forenoon. On Sundays 
(while young) he attended the Congregational church 
Sabbath School, where Ira Betts, Jr. was teacher. One of 
the questions of the old Catechism which impressed him 
was, " What is the chief end of man ? " answer, " Honor 
and glorify God and enjoy him forever." At their district 
school they played Sunday School, and in it this question 
was asked, and their version was "Keep what you have 

*Dr. Jonathan Knight, Sr., b. in Norwich, 1758, settled at Norwalk, 1781, 
res. on street of the same name, was the first person that looked on him ia 
this world. 



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No. 31. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 45 

and get what you can." Old " Major Dudly" was tything 
man. One Sabbath I was sitting with my comrades, not 
listening with close attention to the long sermon, when 
suddenly the Major's hands pulled over backwards two 
of the congregation nearest me; I waited for my pull 
but escaped, and heard every word after that. " The first 
match I ever saw was in the school house at Chestnut Hill 
before meeting, about 1823. " Loco Foco" was printed on 
the box. The discussions, to think of to-day, were amus- 
ing, "the danger of them — why anyone could carry them 
in their pocket, set your barn on fire and no one would 
mistrust you," was suggested. His sister was sick and 
they had no timepiece, and he was sent about one-half a 
mile to "Aunt Betty Stuart's" Drum Hill, to borrow an 
hour glass to give medicine by. He attended the Brigade 
Training at Danbury, Ct., 1839. He started from Norwalk 
at 2 A. M., trained all day and discharged at the upper 
end of Main St., when he and friends went the entire 
length of the street in search of a lunch. They finally 
found the remnants of a roasted pig which they devoured. 
They stayed in a barn all night, but many walked the 
streets. Danbury was overful. He attended General 
Trainings at Stamford, Darien, Redding, Coley's Plain, 
Westport and Cannon's Plain. He commenced training 
May, 1835. The first day he paraded in Norwalk (now 
Westport) near the residence of Wm. Finch, marching to 
Poplar Plain under Capt. Anson Youngs, "Petty training." 
The General training came in Sept. 

He remembered when on the W. side of Saugatuck 
River 12i cts was considered a shilling and on the E. side 
it was 16f cts. His idea of temperance was total abstain- 
ance; that if this was followed all chances of becoming 
drunk would be avoided. The third national convention, 
held in 1841, resolved " that the license laws are at vari- 
ance with all true political economy, and one of the chief 
supports of intemperance." This was his idea. Years 
after (1870, '72 and '73) he was elected Selectman of Wil- 
ton, and while in this duty a no-license vote was accom- 
plished and a man applied for a recommendation to keep a 
liquor store. He was so opposed to the State giving license 
to any one "to sell rum " that he refused to sign the re- 
commendation, although he though the applicant was^ as 
suitable as any other person. He said he would resign 



46 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

the office before he would endorse a " rumseller." The 
other two, however, signed it, making all that was neces- 
sary. He was not re-elected, it being stated that this was 
the cause, and it seems probable that it was. He said he 
had seen enough of the effects of drink in his boyhood, 
in times when nearly everyone partook, especially in har- 
vest, when they had learned to believe that the effect of 
cold water upon a heated system was dangerous. It was 
usual to make a boy ted the hay and wait upon the men 
with drink. At one time when this was his duty, the 
stimulant gave out and he was dispatched to the still for 
cider whisky, and taking the wooden bottle or rundlet, he 
proceeded and returning with it well filled came to a sharp 
hill in the field, and child-like, thought the little barrel 
might as well roll as for him to carry it, so looking about 
him for spectators he let it go down the hill. It bounded 
away over rock and uneven ground until it went from his 
sight. He searched over the low land, and at last found 
it in some alders when he hurried on. 'It was a long 
time between drinks," they said upon his arrival. The 
bung was not so easily removed, and the distiller was not 
very well spoken of for driving it in so hard, they little 
suspecting that it had taken such a journey over a hard 
road. A favorite saying of his was, "A man that can't 
work without it, can't work with it." 

He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1870, '72 and 
'74, and held other minor offices. In 1835-6, being 8 or 9 
years of age, he received one-fourth of one-sixth of the 
estate of his grandfather, Dan'l Nash, Sr. Lewis H. St. 
John, of " Nod " (Wilton) was appointed his guardian and 
from him he received valuable counsel which taught him 
economy and matured his sterling character. As Mr. 
Willard describes him, he was a quiet, spiritually minded 
man. He cared for $1700 for 13 years, never losing one 
cent of the principal and his charge was only $100 for the 
entire time. He was 5 ft. 8 in. in heigth and generally 
weighed about 160 lbs. One peculiarity of his features 
was his very high forehead; his hair early in life turned 
gray, these both being peculiarities of his line of the Nash 
family. His cousin Edward H. Nash very much resembled 
him in general appearance. He remembered the first 10 
cents he ever owned, which Sam'l Hanford (Bro. of his 
mother's first husband, Elnathan) gave him for showing 




Burr Smith. No. 31. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 47 

him a mouse he had caught some time before. In 1884 he 
visited the Cotton Centennial at New Orleans, which south- 
ern trip he had always wished for, being anxious to see 
the actual condition of the colored race south. He came 
home fully satisfied and contented to live in Conn. He 
was a man of great energy and endurance and was sup- 
posed before his death to be the oldest Van Hoosear living. 
He gave his religious experience to the author some time 
before his death. He was converted (and soon after his 
wife Phebe) in the old Poplar Plain M. E. church, which 
is now used as a blacksmith shop. He had no trouble with 
the various doctrines, and soon settled his preference. He 
died as he had lived, a true Methodist. For some years 
before his death he was a great sufferer, but claimed the 
Master sustained him in his afflictions. He died at his 
home in Hurlbutt Street, Wilton, Ct., Jan. 5, 1899, at 11:48 
A. M., and was buried at Hillside Cem., Wilton. 

€hil. of David «& Parmela (Grumman) Van Hoosear. T 

32. II. Infant born Jan. 14, 1819, at Thompson, N. Y. 
Died there. 

33. III. LOriSA, born at Thompson, N.Y. June f 130] 
29, 1820, in a log cabin. She removed to Wilton with her 
parents when very young. She joined the Baptists at 
Georgetown, Redding, Ct., where she was baptized by im- 
miersion within a few feet of where the towns of Wilton, 
Weston and Redding join each other. Her name is found 
on the Danbury church record as being added to that con- 
gregation, Mar., 1838. Married Sept. 4, 1839 Charles Burr 
Morehouse [son of Chas. and Polly (Beers) Morehouse, and 
grandson of Stephen Morehouse] born May 19, 1818, died 
at Ridgefield, Ct., Nov. 16, 1888. Occu, Farmer. Buried 
at Hillside cemetery. 

34. IV. SALLY, born Apr. 39, 1823, at the res. [132] 
formerly owned by " Priest Haight," now (1902) by Wm. 
Sturges, on the Ridgefield Road, Wilton. Married Jan. 4, 
1843 Burr Smith [son of Wm. and Abigail (Bedient) Smith 
of Norwalk, Ct., at Wilton, by Rev. Mr. Smith. Born Feb. 
13, 1821. His last res. 141 Main St., Norwalk, Ct. He died 
Apr. 5, 1901, buried in Union cemetery. 

35. V. HARRIET AMELIA, born at Wilton, Ct, [134] 
Aug. 16, 1824. Married May, 1841, Chas. Partrick [son of 



48 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Halsey and Phebe (Lockwood) Partrick, of Wilton, Ct.] 
Born Oct. 31, 1815. She died Aug. 16, 1847. He 2d md. 
8usaimah Hoyt, July 20, 1850, born Sept. 1, 1828, died July 
to, 1858, [see Hoyt Gen. No. 5354.] He died Feb. 26, 1895, 
buried Zion Hill cemetery, Wilton. 

36. VI. MARY, born Sept. 4, 1826 at Nod,Wilton[135] 
Married 1st, Oct. 8, 1854, Henry Donaghe [son of Henry & 
Polly (Tefft) Donaghe] of Exeter Center, N. Y., born Aug. 
2, 1817, died Jan. 3, 1871. After his death she came to 
Conn., and married 2nd at Portchester, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1883 
Capt. Willis J. Merritt, of Norwalk, Ct. [son of Dan'l and 
Sarah (Lyon) Merritt] born 1810. He died Aug. 10, 1889, 
and was buried at Greenwich, Ct., his former home. She 
married 3d* at Portchester, N.Y., Apr. 4, 1894, Moses Hill, 
of Redding, Ct. [son of Gershom and Cemantha (Gregory) 
Hill.] He died Oct. [funeral 15th] 1898. She then removed 
to N. Y. State, and at present (1902) is residing with her 
only living daughter at West Winfield, N.Y. 

37. VII. EBENEZEK, born at Nod, Wilton, Feb. 18, 
1828. Married Mar. 20, 1849 Mary Gilbert [dau. of Ebenezer 
and Elizabeth (Abbott) Gilbert] by Rev. Wm. N. Bangs. 
Born Jan. 11, 1828. No chil. He learned the trade of 
shoe maker, but afterward took up farming as an occupa- 
tion. He first bought a small place in Wilton which he 
sold, and bought in New Canaan, Ct., then returning to 
Wilton, and thence again to New Canaan, where he ex- 
changed places several times, but eventually settled the 
next door to the Hanford Davenport or earlier Enoch St. 
John place. 

He took great pride in improving his farm and in 
having a good pair of oxen. He, with his wife, her sister 
(Betsey) and a child of Chas and Mary Agnes (Richards)** 
Dickson, of Lewisboro, N. Y., while crossing the R. R. at 
Five Mile River, upon their return from the seashore, were 
instantly killed by the 4.52 P. M. express, Aug. 16, 1887. 
He was thrown into the air 20 ft. and was completely dis- 
articulated. The horse was thrown but escaped without 
injury. The quadruple funeral held at the M. E. Church, 
at New Canaan, was attended by all denominations and 



♦Portchester, marriage record, dau. of David and Parmelia (Drumman) 
[Grumman] Van Hoosear. 

♦♦Brought up by Mr. Van Hoosear from a child. 




FIVE SISTERS. 

Mrs. Abram Fitch, No. 11. Mrs. Stanley Mead, No i3. Mrs. Moses Hill, No. 36. 
Mrs. Charles B. Morehouse, No. 33, Mrs. Burr Smith, No. 3i, 



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FOURTH GENERATION. 49 

all business in the borough was suspended. Three min- 
isters were present at the ceremony and engaged in the 
remarks, some of which were: '' He had been a member of 
the church for nearly 20 years, was unpretentious, honest, 
not ashamed to work, never found taking advantage of 
another for his gain, was a strong temperance man. his 
convictions being decidedly " Total abstinance." His 
light shone out on others; for several years he held an 
office in the church. It was sudden death and sudden 
glory. They went together." Mr. Van and wife were 
buried at Hillside cem., Wilton, and a beautiful monument 
is erected over their graves. 

38. VIII. WILLIAM, born at Nod, Wilton, Oct. [137] 
4, 1839. Married Aug. 3, 1853, Rachel Aim Brown, of Ma- 
maroneck, N. Y., born July 24, 1834, his record, [Sept. 20, 
his mother's record.] She died July 7, 1869, at Black River 
Falls, Wis. He 2nd married June 11, 1871, Mary Ann fas- 
well,* (wid. of Thos. Caswell and dau. of Levi and Sally 
Warren,) born April 22, 1843 He spent 5 yrs, 7 mo. learn- 
ing carpenter's trade, under Chas. Scribner, Wilton. 1850 
to April, 1851, worked at John O. St. John's, Georgetown, 
then rem. to Norwalk until fall, when he went to Mamar- 
oneck, stayed thereuntil Apr. 18o5,went to Ripon, engaged 
10 mos. with Mr. Burr Betts, thence to Black River Falls, 
Wis., where he built the Court house.** He also built the 
Union School House of three stories for $24,000. In 1856 
he went logging, 1871 rem. to Unity, Clark Co., Wis., where 
he built a saw mill, 1875 rem. to Romeo, about 3^ miles 
from Unity, which was a wilderness of timber. A railroad 
had been built 7 yrs. Here he built several houses, a saw 
mill, established a large lumber yard: but on July 7, 1876, 
a fire, (the work of an incendiary) burned 7,000,000 feet of 
lumber, dwelling house, 14 tenant houses, and blacksmith 
shop, leaving not a building standing. Damage $125,000, 
insurance $45,000. He again built up the little hamlet but 
Sept. 27, 1888, another fire came (probably the work of the 
same incendiary) burning 0,000,000 ft. of lumber, sawmill, 
planing mill, two tenant houses, large boarding house, and 

*By Mr. Caswell she had two chil., viz.: i. Warren Levi ind. Maud 
Gruber; one child; Helen Caswell, aged 8 yrs. (1901). 2. Thomas md 
Nellie Carbury, of Fondulac, Wis. 

**Contract for which was $65,000. The building was burned, and his 
tools to the extent of $300.00 were burned with it. 



60 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Post Office which had been established there in 1879. He 
then left Wis.. July 1891, removing to California where he 
settled on a large fruit farm at Haywards, Alameda Co., 
where he still resides (1901.) He has a very genial dis- 
position, was fond of children, far sighted in business 
matters and not afraid to invest capital, with all his discour* 
agements, a man with plenty of energy and able to control 
large responsibilities. 

39. IX. CHARLES, born at Nod, Wilton, April [U6] 

13, 1831. Married Nov. 1, 1854, Emily Cole [dau. of Sher- 
man and Susan (Hurlbutt) Cole, grd. dau. of Thos., gt. 
grd. dau. of Jonothan Cole, all of Wilton] born Dec. 
33, 1830. His last res. was Chestnut Hill, Wilton, where 
he had settled about 18 yrs. before. He was formerly a 
shoe maker, but the factory system drove him from that, 
and he took up agriculture. He built a large barn, im- 
proved his farm, and prepared to build a fine house, when 
his services were solicited as cutter at the Morrison & Co. 
shirt manufactory, Norwalk, Ct., in which he worked un- 
til a short time before his death. He suffered with a per- 
sistant throat trouble which resulted in his death Dec. 1, 
1881. The autopsy revealed a tumor of 4 lb. 6 oz. weight, 
completely filling the upper cavity of the thorax. He bore 
his suffering with submission and patience, arranged his 
business affairs to be managed by his family when he was 
gone. He was buried at Hillside cem., Wilton. His wife 
died at Norwalk, June 19, 1893, at 10.30 A. M., and was 
buried at same place. 

40. X. ELIZABETH, born at Nod, Wilton, Aug. [122] 

14, 1834. Married Feb. 14, 1853, Ahram Fitch, born Sept. 
25, 1830. [See No. 27.] 

41. XI. GEORGE EDGAR, born at Nod, Wilton, [148] 
Dec. 13, 1836. Married Apr. 18, 1861, Eliza J. Fitch [dau. 
of Wm. and Harriet (Raymond) Fitch, of Norwalk, Ct.] 
born Oct. 31, 1839. He learned the carpenter's trade with 
Chas. Scribner of Wilton, which occupation he has gener- 
ally followed. He is remarkable in his observation in 
business, being a natural mechanic, he has kept up with 
the trade in which he is very expert. He is economical 
and while working looks for the interests of his employer. 
He resides at Cranbury, Norwalk, [1902]. He has long 
been a member of Lodge No. 10, I.O.O.F. 




William A" an Hoosear. No. 38. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 51 

42. XII. SYLYESTER, born at Nod, Wilton, Ct., Mar. 
14, 1839. Married Feb. 14, 1861 Miss Julia B. Taylor, [dau. 
of Horace and Rebecca (Quintard) Taylor, he of Ridgebury 
and she of Norwalk, Ct.] of Norwalk, Ct., born July G, 
1838. No children. His primary course of education was 
received at the district school in Nod, finishing his course 
under the tutorship of Hon. Edward Olmsted, of Wilton, Ct. 
He engaged himself as clerk in John Bennett's dry goods 
store, Norwalk, afterward entered in partnership with an 
associate clerk, under the firm name of Van Hoosear & 
Ambler, in the same business in Norwalk. This was the 
leading house of its kind in the now city of Norwalk until 
bis death, Oct. 29, 1884, from brain fever. He held many 
positions of trust and directorship in his town, and was 
much respected. His beautiful face, rosy countenance 
and pleasant manners won for him a large acquaintance 
and many friends. He was buried in Union cem., Nor- 
walk, at the setting of the sun; funeral services were con- 
ducted by the I.O.O.F. order. The " Norwalk Hour" issue 
Nov. 1, 1884 says: "When about 18 he came to Norwalk as 
clerk and remained as such until Dec. 1865, when he and 
James Ambler bought out Morris & Doty, dry goods deal- 
ers. He was one of the incorporators of the Norwalk Sav- 
ings Society, Director of the Nat'i Bank of Norwalk, and 
member of Our Brothers' Lodge, No. 10, I.O.O.F. The 
" Norwalk Gazette " remarked: " He was 20 years a mem- 
ber of the 1st Cong. Church, member of the Board of Trade. 
Years ago he erected one of the finest residences on our 
most attractive avenue [30 West Ave]. As a merchant and 
business man he was methodical, sagacious and indefatig- 
able. At his funeral the many floral tributes bestowed by 
sorrowing friends were of unique and beautiful designs 
and most profuse in number. The scroll presented by the 
bank was particularly noticeable and beautiful. 

43. XIII. A^'TOINETTE,bornat (Nod,)Wilton, [152] 
Ct., Nov. 23, 1840. Married there Oct. 10, 1859 James Stan- 
ley Mead, of Branchville, Ct., [son of Wm. and Abiah L. 
(Partridge) Mead,] born Sept. 15, 1838. Occu. carpenter. 
Res. (1900) Garfield Av., Danbury, Ct. 

44. XIV. HENRY, born at (Nod) Wilton, Ct., [156] 
Nov. 29, 1842. Married Sept. 4, 1866, Lucy Ellen Johnson, 
[dau. of Francis Johnson,] born at Stafford, Vt., April 5, 
1845. She died in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 14, 18—. He 2d 



52 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

married, at Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1890, Sara Rosa Leaton 
(wid. of Wm. Carey Leaton) and i dau. of Wm. Bacon and 
Susan (Rose) Saxton, of N. Y. State] bornat Suffield,Mass. 
He served in the War of the Rebellion, in Co. A, 17th 
Regt., Conn. Vol., mustered in Aug. 9, 1863, mustered out 
at Hilton Head, S. C, July 19, 1865. He engaged in the 
dry goods business at So. Norwalk but sold out and for a 
time was a traveling salesman. At the time of his death 
he was engaged with F. B. Smith, Bridgeport, Ct., where 
he had been for several years. He died Aug. 19, 1901, at 
7 A. M., at 122 Courtland St., Bridgeport, Ct. Buried at 
Worcester, Mass. 



FIFTH GENERATION, 



Chil. of Smith and Julia Ann (Van Hoosear) Pinney. 8 

45. I. LUCY A., born Aug. 11, 1821. Married [159] 
Henry Hoppson, his occu. said to be merchant. Res. Troy, 
N.Y.Both are said to have been adopted by a Troy resident. 

46. II. CHARLOTTE JANE, born Sept. 7, 1828. [161] 
Married Henry L. Babcock. 

47. III. EDWAKB S., b. May 8, 1833, died Oct. 22,1855 

48. IV. WILLIAM T., born April 25, 1835, died Oct. 
22, 1856. 

49. V. CHATTNCEY T., born April 25, 1837. [163] 
Married Aug. 18, 1865, Percillia Jones. 

50. VI. HENRY A., born Feb. 15,1839. Married [165] 
July 16, 1864, Catherine Cooper. 

51. VII. CURTIS S., b. June 28, 1840. Married [167] 
Jan. 3, 1867, Marion Beebe. At one time he was Post Mas- 
ter at Chestonia, Antrim Co., Mich, 

52. VIII. FRANKLYN H., born May 23, 1842. 

53. IX. LAURA AUGUSTA, born Feb. 29, 1844. [171] 
Married Sept. 3, 1866, David Steele. 

54. X. ADELBERT R., born Mar. 10, 1846. [173] 
Married Sept. 1867, Alisa Rogers. 

55. XI. NORMAN R., b. Aug. 23, 1847. Married [1751 
Mar. 10, 1870, Mary Torry. 





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FIFTH GENERATION. 53 

Chil. of Cyrus and Sally (Van Hoosear) Riddle. 10 

57.1. MARY, born . Married before 1850, Mr. 

Adams, an atty. at law, of Rochester, N. Y., where they 
resided Jan. 27, 1850. 

58. II. NATHAN LEWIS, after his father's death, 
(then about 13 yrs. of age) he was adopted by Allen Swart- 
out, and resided in Wisconsin. 

59. III. SARAH, Married 1st , he lived but 6 weeks 

Married 2nd . No children. 

Chil. of William and Sally (Tan Hoosear) (Riddle) 10 
Jennings. 

60. IV. CELIA, married — Butterfield. Res. Feb. 12, 
1862, Toledo, Ohio. She is reported dead. 

Cliil. of Emerson and Adelia (Tan Hoosear) Clapp. 1 1 

61. I. CHESTER D, born May 20, 1836. Married Feb. 
21, 1866, Minnie L. Ober, born July 4, 1848. Res. 1880, East 
Claridon, Geauga Co., Ohio, without children. 

63. II. CHILLISSA A., born Oct. 17, 1837, died March 
8, 1874. Unmarried. 

63. III. MARY, born in the spring of 1842. Died, "one 
or two weeks old." 

64. IV. HOMER, born in the summer of 1844, died 
Mar. 1846. 

Chil. of Nathan and (White) Tan Hoosear. 12 

65. I. SUSAN MATILDA, is said to have been adopted 
by her grandmother. Res. Canada. 

Chil. of David R. & Caroline (Whiting;) Tan Hoosear. 13 

66. I. NANCY A., born Sept. 30, 1845, died Feb. 5, 1846 

67. II. ALBERT W., b. Oct. 23, 1846, died Mar. 23, 1874 

68. III. LEROY W., b. Sept. 6, 1854, died Jan. 27, 1855 

69. IV. Son. Living 1887. 

70. V. Son. Living 1887. 

Chil. of Levi 0. and Susan C. (Tan Hoosear) Brown. 14 

71. I. EMMA OPHELIA, born at Wilton, Ct., Aug. 8, 
1859, died at Wilton (Hurlbutt St.) Aug. 21, 1864. Buried 
St. Matthews cem. 



54 VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 

72. II. NELLIE TAN, bornat (Hurlbutt St.) Jan. [176] 
24, 1864. Married Dec. 1886, Henry DeWitt Meeker [son of 
"Harry" and Martha A. (Davisson) Meeker, he of West- 
port, she of Roxbury, Ct.] born Mar. 2, 1860. Occu. farmer. 
Res. (1900, Crosshighway) Westport, Ct. 

ChiL of Hezekiah & Caroline (Whiting) Tan Hoosear. 15 

73. I. FRANK ADELBERT, born Nov. 26, 1853. Unm. 
1887. Went west. 

74. II. WILLIE REED, born Mar. 6, 1858. Md.— [179 

75. III. HERBERT JAMES, b. Dec. 30, 1860. Md.-[180 

76. IV. ETA THERSA, born Feb. 10, 1863. Md. — 
P. O. address, 1887, Quincy, Mich. 

Chil. of Samuel and Antoinette (Jelliff) Carpenter. 16 

77.1. LYBIA MARIA, born Sept. 1825. Married Louis 
Shuster. He died at Rosco, Sul. Co., N. Y._, about 1890. 
Occu. grocer and dry goods merchant. She died at Dairy- 
land, Ulster Co., N.Y., May 16, 1850. No children. 

78. II. EDWARD, born July 18, 1827, died a small boy 
in Sul. Co., N. Y. 

79. III. ISAAC JELLIFF, born July 24, 1829. [181j 
Married at Council Bluffs, April 13, 1849, Nancy Adaline 
Perkins [dau. of Absolom and Nancy ( — ) Perkins] born 
Dec. 12, 1831. He served in the Mexican War as substitute 
for his father, who was drafted. He received his equip- 
ment on the 3rd or 4th of Aug. 1846, in Co. C, under Capt. 
James Allen, and was one of the party that wintered at 
Peublo, Col. After he left Thunder Hill, with his parents, 
he never returned to Sullivan Co. until 1856 or '57 when he 
paid his friends there a visit. Res. (1900) Canon City, 
Col., but had removed Aug 1901. 

80. IV. RHODA ANN, born Jan. 5, 1832. Married [185J 
Sept. 14, 185-, at Ellensville, N.Y., Joseph Ephriam Mance 
(son of George) born Sept. 2, 1827. Res. Ellenville, N. Y. 
Occu. Architect and Miller. She died July, 1896. 

81. V. JULIA ANN, born Jan. 6, 1834. Married [190] 
Oct. 17, 1852, in Sullivan Co., N. Y., Simon J. Keator, born 
at Stone Ridge, Ulster Co., N. Y., June 25, 1830. Occu. 
farmer. He died April, 1901. Last res. Vineland, Colo. 
She died at Vineland, Mar. 9, 1901. 



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FIFTH GENERATION. 55 

82. VI. ELIZABETH "BETSEY" born June 3, [195] 
1836. Married April 16, 1853, Elijali Maiice [cousin of above 
Joseph E.] born July 23, 1825. "lie died near Ellenville, 
[" The Cape "1 Jan. 4, 1875. She died 3 miles from Ellen- 
ville, May 8, 1869. His occu. farmer. 

83. VII. ANTOINETTE M., born July 3, 1838. 1201] 
Married Dec. 31, 1859, Samuel I. Benson [son of Neal S. and 
Elizabeth G. (Turrei) Benson] born Feb. 23, 1810. Occu. 
Cutler (Knife Maker). Res. 189:?, Ellenville, N. Y. 

84. VIII. ABIGAIL, born at Olive Green, in Hancock 
Co., 111., Sept. 20, 1810, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, when 
about 6 years of age. Another account, fall of 1841. 

85. IX. BENJAMIN ALMON, born at Olive Green, [206 
Hancock Co., 111., Aug. 14, 1842. Married April 16, 186-, 
Nancy Jane Groo |dau. of John and Emily (Palmer) Groo] 
born July 23, 1841, at Neversink. Occu. farmer. Res. 
Hasbrouck, Sul. Co., N. Y. (1901). 

86. X. NANCY, born at Olive Green, Hancock Co., 111. 
before Nov. 10, 1846, died an infant. 

Chil. of Curtis B. and Abigail (Heynoids) JelliiT. 17 

87. I. JANE ANN, born at Fallsburgh, N. Y. [209] 
May 14, 1837. Married Oct. 2, 1859, Jarvis Carr Kile [son 
of Dr. Benjamin & Tabitha (Carr) Kile] born Aug. 17,1834. 
Occu. farmer. Res. Fallsburgh, (P. O. Woodbourne, N.Y.) 

88. II. ISAAC, born at Fallsburgh. N. Y., May [212] 
12, 18:^9. Married at Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1868, Joanna 
Porter [dau. of Henry and Catherine (Black) Porter] born 
Mar. 2, 1846. Res. Hasbrouck, 1901. He served during the 
War of the Rebellion, first as private in Co. E, 20th N. Y. 
S. M., from April 23, '61 to July '61; second as 1st Lieut. 
Co. K, 56th Regt., N. Y. State Vol. from Sept. '61 to Feb. 
'62; third as 1st Lieut, and Capt. 143rd Regt., N. Y. S. V., 
from Oct. '62 to July '65. Held office of County School 
Commissioner of 2d Dist., Sullivan Co., from '73 to '75. 
Clerk in Census Bureau, Wash., D. C, 1890 to 1893. Owns 
a farm in the town of Neversink, 112, where he resides, 
1901. Two children. 

89. III. REUBEN REYNOLDS, b. at Fallsburgh, [2 14] 
N. Y., June 13, 1841. Married at Monticello, JN. Y., Jan. 3, 
1866, Martha Ann Gillett idau. of Zopher & Martha (Drake) 
Gillett] born at Fallsburgh, N. Y., July 16, 1842. He stud- 



56 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

ied law with Senator Henry R. Low, at Monticello, N. Y., 
admitted to the bar Dec. 8, 1864, at Albany,N.Y. Practiced 
law since 1866 at Woodbourne, N. Y.; held the office 
of Special Co. Judge from Jan. 11, 1896 to Dec. 31, 1898. 
He has been prominent in contributing to this Vol. 

90. IV. GEORGE, born Feb. 24, 1849, died Oct. 27, 
1865, at Thunder Hill, Sul. Co., N. Y. 

Chil. of Isaac B. and Rhoda Ann (Jelliff) Tyrrill. 18 

91. I. MARIA SOPHIA, born Sept. 13, 1841, died at 

Woodbourne, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1862. 

92. II. LYDIA A., born Mar. 5, 1843. Married [217] 
1st David P. Hall Palmer [son of Benj, F. and Tryphena 
(Gillett) Palmer] born Mar. 7, 1839, died April 8, 1865. Md. 
2nd, May 9, 1875, Joseph Merritt, farmer, [See No. 98]. 

93. III. WM. HENRY, born Oct. 17, 1845, Md. [219a] 
May 5, 1868, Cornelia A. Hendrickson [dau. of Blake and 
Elizabeth (Upham) Hendrickson] born Oct. 10, 1850. Res. 
Middletown, N, Y. He died July 18, 1900. His occu. City 
Police. 

94. IV. DAYID NASH, | named after David Nash Van 
Hoosear] born Mar. 11, 1848, died May 13, 1852. 

Chil. of Martin F. and Maria (Fitch) Merritt. 20 

95. I. WILLIAM FITCH, born May 30, 1834, at Mar- 
bletown. Married Cornelia Holmes [dau. of Wright and 
Hannah (Gray) Holmes] born July 24, 1836. Last res. 
Woodbourne, N.Y. He died April 14, 1859, at Fallsburgh, 
N. Y. She died Feb. 11, 1863. No children. 

96. II. MARTIN, born at Marbletown, June 4,1836. 220 
Married 1st, Mar. 12, 1864, Maria J. Evans (dau, of Sam'l & 
Sophia Evans, of Woodbourne) died April 8, 1865. No 
chil. Married 2nd, Jan. 5, 1867, widow, Cornelia Kinney 
(dau. of Nathan and Cornelia Layton) born Mar. 25, 1837. 
Res. Woodbourne, (1900.) She died Sept. 8, 1898, Occu. 
Prop. River View House (Boarding.) 

97. III. DANIEL WEBSTER, born at Marbletown [230 
Sept. 30, 1838. Married Melissa Pierce (dau. of Hiram and 
Emeline) Res. Cooperstown, N.Y. (1892.) He died the fall 
of 1895. She was living (1900), in Otsego Co., N.Y. 

98. IV. JOSEPH, born at Marbletown, June 16, [231] 
1841. Married 1st, Dec. 23, 1863, Jliranda L. Smith, [dau. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 57 

of Joseph and Lucinda (Colwell) Smith] born Feb. 15, 1838, 
died Aug. 12, 1874. Married 2d, May 9, 1875, Widow Lydia 
A, [Turrill] [Palmer], [dau. of Isaac andRhodaA. (Jelliff) 
Turrill] born Mar. 5, 1843. Res. near Ellenville, N.Y. 1900. 

99. V. SILAS, born at Marbletown, N.Y., Aug. [236] 
5, 1843. Married Nov. 12, 18(M, Louise Kortright [dau. of 
Lawrence and Rachel (Bloomer) K.] born May 9. 1841. 
Prop. "'Merritt House," boarding house. Res.Woodbourne, 
N. Y. (1900.) 

100. VI. ABNER, born at Marbletown, N. Y, [241] 
Aug. 8, 1846, married 1st, Dec. 25, 18G8, Mary A. Bilyeii[dau. 
of Cornelius and Margaret (Misner) B.] born Feb. 24, 1852 
and died July 1, 1899. Married 2nd, June 1902, Emily De 
Witt, [dau. of Jas., of Woodbourne, N. Y.) His res, 1902, 
Woodbourne. N. Y. Occu. Boarders. 

101. VII. MADISON, born at Marbletown, N.Y., Mar. 
11, 1849, married 1st, Nov. -, 1867. Mary Sprague [dau. of 
Abel and Elizabeth (Bussy) S.] b. 1841. No. chil. Married 
2nd, Feb. 25, 1891, Phebe E. Krom, [dau. of Conrad and 
Sarah M. (Carman) K.] born Mar. 17, 1854. Res. Has- 
brook, N. Y. 

102. VIII. WARREN, born June 19, 1852, died unm., 
Mar. 27, 1872, Last res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

103. IX, KERAN ESTHER, born Mar. 23, 1856. [242 
Married Demon Winner [son of Benj. and Charity (Gillett) 
Winner], Res. DeBruce, N. Y. (1900). 

104. X. WILLIAM HENRY, born at Fallsburgh, N.Y. 
July 4, 1860, married Mahala Osterhoiit [dau. of Isaiah D, 
and Mary (Dolson) Osterhout], No chil. Res, then Loch 
Sheldrake, N, Y, 

Chil. of Nathan and Charlotte (Cummings) Fitch. 22 

105. I, GEORGE, born Aug. 10, 1845, married Dec. 6, 
1870, Arunda Kane, Occu. farmer. Res. Johnstown, Ful- 
ton Co., N. Y. (1890). 

Chil. of Nathan and Sally A. (Horton) Fitch. 22 

106. II. MARY JANE, born June 15, 1859, md. [251] 
Feb. 10, 1875, George L. Cushman [son of Lee and Esther 
(Bolton) Cushman] born Feb, 25, 1854, Occu, farmer. 
Res. Schuyler's Lake, N. Y. 



58 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Eleazer and Liicretia (Fitch) Bowen. 23 

107. I. HUDSON, died at Cooperstown, N. Y., July, 
1851, about 1 year old, 

108. II. Infant son, died at Cooperstown, N. Y., Aug. 
2, 1851. 

109. III. HARMON GILBERT, born — . Married Ella 
Smith (dau. of John and Lizzie Smith) Res. " Fitch Hill " 
Cooperstown. N. Y. 

Chil. of Peter and Susan (Fitch) Countryman. 24 

110. I. WILBER NELSON, born 1842, died aged 2 yrs. 

111. II. RHODA,b. Aug. 29, 1845. Married Aug.[252] 
1863, Elisha Ayres, b. 1843, alive 1901. Res. High Falls, 1900 

112. III. LEWIS, born July 4, 1849. Married [258] 
Dec. 1878, Minerva Silliworth, born about 1859. 

113. IV. WILLIAM HENRY, born Feb. 13, [259] 
1853, married Dec. 28, 1878, Rozzana Stokes, b. Mar. 1863. 

114. V. NATHAN, born June 14, 1856, married [262] 
Dec, 1878, Mary Yaple, born 1858. 

115. VI. ANNA MARIA, b. April, 1858, married [264] 
April 3, 1880, Barney Flynn, born about 1856. 

116. VII. MARTHA, born Feb. 12, 1861, married[266] 
Sept., 1861, Aria Silkworth, born 1854. 

117. VIII. ESTHER MARY, born June 14, 1869, died 
aged 2 years. 

Chil. of Jasper and Antoinette (Fitch) Purple. 25 

118. I. HERMAN DATIl),* b. at Exeter Center, [267] 
N. Y., Mar. 38, 1852, Married at Rosedale, Aug. 10, 1871, 
Catherine Snyder Hasbrouck, [dau. of Jacob and Anna 
(Fan) Hasbrouck] born at High Falls, N. Y., May 27, 1846. 
Res. (1901) No. 12 Sterling St., Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Occu. Cement Miller. 

Chil. of John Lester & Antoinette Purple (Fitch) Niles.25 

119. II. JOHN LESTER, born April 20, 1858. [267h] 
Married Dec. 24, 1885, Anna Tilson, [dau. of Wm. H. Til- 
son] born Feb, 4, 1866. She died March 3, 1892. 

120. III. SILAS MARTIN, born July 6, 1874, married 
June 28, 1888, Anna Hasbrouck, born at High Falls, N.Y., 
Dec. 6, 1872. Occu. Blacksmith. Res. High Falls, Ulster 
Co., N. Y .. No children (1901). 

* Called himself Niles after his mother's marriage to J. L. Niles. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 09 

121. IV. JOSEPH, born June 10, 1867 or '69. Last 
res. Hasbrouck, Sul. Co., N.Y. Drowned in the Neversink 
River, June 38, 1881. 

Chil. of Abrani and Elizabeth (Tan Hoosear) Fitch. 27 

122. I. MARP.IET LOUISA BURR, born at Ex- [268] 
eter, N. Y., Feb. 31, 1855. Married Oct. 21, 1873, Georg-e 
Irving' Maig-lit, (son of George, of Ridgefield, Conn.) born 
April 39, 1853. Res. So. Norwalk, Ct. (1884). She died at 
Norwalk, Ct., S^pt. 17, 1881. He 3nd married. 

123. II. GEORGIA DOROTHEA, born June 18, 1868. 
Married at Norwalk. Ct., Nov. 14, 1888, at 5 P. M., George 
Raymond Barunm, [son of Geo H. and Susan J. (Hyatt) 
Barnum] of Norwalk, Ct. He built a beautiful residence, 
but sold it and they now live (1902) with her parents on 
Westport road. Occu. Accountant for Norwalk Lock Co. 
No chil. (1902). 

CML of Dana and Elizabeth (Fitch) Pope. 28 

124. I. ESTHER MAllY, m — . Res. Morris, Otsego 
Co., N. Y. 

125. II. WILLIAIvi, unmarried. Res. Oct. 1890, New 
Lisbon, N.Y. Occu. Farmer. 

Chil. of Lewis and Mary L. Y. (Reed) Fitcl?. 30 

ISO. I. ELMER ELLSWORTH, born at Exeter, N. Y. 
July 19, 1862. Married at Westford, N. Y.. Dec. 26, 1884 
Nina Burwell Bailey, [dau. of Saml. C. and Jane (Roberts) 
Bailey]. Res. Fly Creek, N. Y. (1892). Occu. Painter. 

127. II. EELERY GEORGE, born at Burlington, N.Y. 
May 11, 1870. Unm. Res. Fly Creek, N.Y. [1892], 

Chil. of David N. and Phebe (Fiilow) Tan Hoosear. 31 

128. I. OPHELIA, born at Norwalk, Ct., Nov. 30,1839. 
Married at Hurlbutt St., Feb. 28, 1866, George Benjamin 
Abbott [son of Lewis and Calcina (Sturges) Abbot of Wil- 
ton, Ct.,] born at Wilton, June 29, 1839. She died at (Hurl- 
butt Street) Wilton, Feb. 4, (11.15 P. M.) 1879, a devoted 
wife and christian. After their marriage they moved to 
(Branchville) Ridgefield, Ct., where they lived for some 
years, and from there to Hurlbutt St. in the " Danl. Hurl- 
butt " place, thence to the " Michael Abbott " homestead, 
where she died. No children. After her death he married 



60 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

LoTica Smith, [dau. of Egbert and Harriet (Smith) Smith]. 
They have one child, Sarah Jane. His occu. was Black- 
smith, but he now attends his farm. 

129. II. DAVID HERMON, b. at (Hurlbutt St.) [270] 
Wilton, Ct., Mar. 20, 1844. Married at (Zion'sHill) Wilton, 
Ct., Oct. 29, 1867, Miss Sarah Jane Quick [dau. of Thaddeus 
Smith and Harriet (Nichols) Quick, of Wilton, Ct., and 
grd. dau. of Samuel P. and Laura (Smith) Quick, of North 
Salem, N. Y.] born at Redding, Ct., June 12, 1846. Occu. 
Genealogist. Res. (Hurlbutt St.) Wilton, Ct. 

SOLILOQUY 

A while from now, when shall it be ? 

I '11 rest my busy brain, 
I often think it may be soon, 

I '11 cease from toil and pain. 

A while from now, will ne'er be seen 

My form, nor yet my face, 
I ask myself, will I be missed, 

Or leave a vacant place ? 

A while from now — oh, can it be, 

So soon I'll be forgot? 
I only ask give me a place 

By Mother dear in Father's plot. — D. V. H. 



THOUGHTS OF THE FUTURE. 

When I shall die, will some kind friend 

Look into my quiet humble face, 

Before they lay me in my resting place. 
And will " they call to miud with loving thought, 
Some kindly deed the icy hands have wrought, 

Some tender words the frozen lips have said. 

Errands on which the willing feet have sped ? " 
Whispering, may every fault be set aside — for he is dead. 

When the long, last rest is mine, 

And from this earth I 'm called away; 
May some Van Hoosear friend exclaim, 

This is the end, and no delay. 
His work is o'er, his labors cease; 

His life 's complete, — his race is run, 
He 's passed away, no more we '11 see his face, 

And all his kindly deeds are done. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 61 

With interest felt — he labored hard; 

In tracing up the generations past, — 
Yet none can tell but those who know, 

The task he 's had from first to last; 
The nights of thought, and days the same, 

The broken rest, — for me, — for you; 
He gave his time, — his talent, — strength, 

To follow up the work he had to do. 

How can we pay the debt we owe. 

To him, the author of this book. 
But hear, what now he had to say. 

He only asked a though, — a look, — 
He said, ' ' When I am dead and gone. 

And generations, yet unborn (It's all I claim.) 
Shall look beneath these lids; I ask 

To find, my father, — then, think kindly of his name." 

— D. V. H. 

Chil. of Charles B. and Louisa (Tan Hoosear) More- 33 
house. 

130. I. CHARLES BURR, born Mar. 29, 1841. [271] 
Married at Norwalk, Ct., Cong. Church, June 7, 18G4, Miss 
Mary F. Ferris [dau. of "Capt." Stephen, Jr. and Emeline 
(Aiken) Ferris] of East Norwalk, (the Ferris family des- 
cended from Stamford) born ]\lar. 6, 1841. He secured a 
good education under the tutorship of Hon. B. F. Brown, 
at (Cannon) Wilton. He bought a place on Staten Island, 
N. Y., but moved to Branchviile, Ct, where he was em- 
ployed as accountant and salesman in the Lumber and 
Hardware business. There he built a fine residence and 
subsequently acted as traveling salesman until he engaged 
in the lumber business for himself at Danbury. His wife 
died Dec. 14, 1898, A.M. He is now disengaged and resides 
at Branchviile, (1900). 

131. II. GEORGIANA, born Sept. 19, 1843. [272] 
Married at Ridgefield, Dec. 25, 1865, Lewis Milton Ryfen- 
burgh [son of Peter and Dorothy (Lewis) Ryfenburgh] 
born at Phelps, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1839. He received a good 
education at Hon. B. F. Brown's, where he and his wife 
were schoolmates. Occu. Marine engineer. After his 
marriage most of his time was spent in and near N. Y. 
City. He was the inventor of the Automatic Opera Glass. 
*'Mr. Ryfenburgh was well known in Wilton — where his 
kindly, pleasant ways and ready sympathy had won for 



62 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

him many friends." [Obituary notice]. His health fail- 
ing he and wife came to her old home at Ridgefield where 
Feb. 28, 1896, he died. The wid. still resides there (1903). 

Chil. of Burr and Sally (Yaii Hoosear) Smith. 34 

132. I. ISABELLA, b. Feb. 23, 1846. Married [273] 
at Wilton, Ct., Oct. 15, 1863, Addison Armstrong Betts [son 
of Ira Jr., and Nancy (Weber) Betts of Wilton] born Dec. 
30, 1840. His occupations have been school teacher, 
accountant, coll. of City (Norwalk) taxes. He was chosen 
Capt. of Militia at ISorwalk, where he resides (1903) and 
where he with others were successful in having the pres- 
ent armory located. 

133. II. FERDINANI) BURR, born Nov. 6, 1848[274] 
Married Jan., 1870 Miss Anna Waters, [dau. of Amzi and 
Elizabeth Jane (Stevens) Waters, of Norwalk] born Aug. 
16, 1848. She died at Bridgeport, Ct., Dec. 15, i900, buried 
at Norwalk, Ct. He acted as salesman in N. J. for a few 
years, and afterward came to Norwalk and opened a large 
Dry Goods store under the firm name of " Earle and 
Smith." In a few years he moved to N. Y., then to Troy, 
N. Y., then to Bridgeport, Ct., where for twelve years he 
conducted a large Dry Goods business. He 2nd married 
Sept. 3, 1902, Genevra Bessie [widow of Chas. B. Root, and 
dau. of Francis Fisk and Lucy (Kendall) McLean, of Lud- 
low, Mass.] born April 22, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Smith re- 
side at 141 Main St., Norwalk, Ct. (1903.) 

Ciiil. of Ciiarles & Harriet (Yan Hoosear) Partrick. 35 

134. I. MARY FRANCES, born Sept. 20, 1845. [277] 
Married 1st by T. A. Lovejoy, Nov. 27, 1863. Daniel 
Stnrges Abbott [son of Lewis and Calcina (Sturges) Ab- 
bott] born Feb. 13, 1842. He enlisted in the 3d Reg., Co. 
D, Conn Militia, May 11, 1861, and was discharged Aug. 
12,1861. Re-enlisted Oct. 29, 1862 in the 25th Reg. Ct. 
Vol., Co. I, discharged April 25, 1863. He was drowned 
outside of Norwalk harbor May 25, 1873. Last res. (Can- 
non Sta.) Wilton. She 2d married Sept. 1879, Henry Burr 
Partrick, of Wilton [son of BurrJ. She resides at Cannon 
Station (1900). 

Chil. of Henry and Mary (Yan Moosear) Donaghe. 36 

135. I. HARRIET ASIELIA, born Feb. 17, 1856, died 
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MEMBERS OF FIVE OENERATIONS. 

Mrs. Louis M. K.vfeiilmrsli, lai. 

Mrs. (has. B. Morehousf, :^:^. Mrs. David A an Hoosfar, 7, 

Mrs. Percy St. ('. Ackerinaii, "272. 

Lewis St. ('. B. Ackeriiian, 32<>. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 63 

136. II. LUCIA AMELIA, born July 14, 1861. |283] 
Married Sept. 4, 1878, Arthur Moore Parke [son of Byron 
and Sophia (Brooks) Parke], born May 11, 1854. Occu. 
Prof, of Mufeic. (Grad. 187G.) Res. West Winfield, Her- 
kermer Co., N.Y. (1901.) 

Chil. of William and Rachel Ann (Brown) Tan Hoosear. 

38 

137. I. JULIAN, born at Black River Falls, Wis., 
Oct. G, 1853, died May 10, 1860. 

138. II. MINNIE BLANCHE, born at Black River 
Falls, Wis., May 29, 1862, died May 22, 1863. 

Chil. of William and Mary Ann (Warren) (Caswell) Tan 
Hoosear. 38 

139. III. HELEN BLANCHE, b. Sept. 23, 1872. [285a] 
Married Sept. 5, 1895 Philip Richard Kimball [son of Ed- 
win and Mary (Bisbie) Kimball, he born at Levden, N. Y. 
1831, she at Ellicottville, N. Y., 1833] born Dec. 1, 1873. 
Occu. Rancher. Res. Haywards, Cal. 1901. 

140. IV. JOHN EDWIN, born at Unity, Wis. [285e] 
Dec. 23, 1874. Married Oct. 15, 1896 Grace Julia Kennedy 
[dau. of Duncan Cameron* and Addie (Best) Kennedy] 
born at Haywards, Cal., Mar. 24, 1875. Occu. Fruit Cul- 
turist. Res. Haywards, Cal. lOul. 

141. V. WILLIAM SYLYESTER, born Jan. 23[285f] 
1877, married June 14, 1900 Margaret Steedman, [dau. of 
Peter and Agnes (Patterson) Steedman of Scotland] born 
in London, Eng., Aug. 4, 1875. His occupation, fruit cul- 
turist. Graduated Union High School, No. 3, June 8th, 
1894, at Haywards, Cal., where he resided, 1901. 

142. VI. DAYID, born at Romeo, Wis., July 16, 1882, 
died aged 7 months. 

143. VII. BESSIE ELNORA SALLY PERMELA, b. 

at Romeo, Wis., July 16, 1882, died Mar. 12, 1887. 

144. VIII. MAY ROMONA, born at Romeo, Wis.. 

April 1868, died 1886. 

145. IX. THERESA EIGHMY, born at Romeo, Wis., 
Jan. 30, 1888, unmarried 1901. 

* Born Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 4, 1838. She at Portland, Me., June 10, 1852. 



64 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Charles and Emily (Cole) Van Hoosear. 39 

146. I. FLETCHER, born in Norwalk, Mar. 25, 1870, 
married Oct. 24, 1900 Miss Harriet Esther Ruscoe [dau. of 
Cyrus and Frances E. (Davis) Ruscoe, of Norwalk, Ct.] 
He is a member of Our Brothers' Lodge, No. 10, I.O.O.F. 
and employed at the Shirt Man'f'y, Norwalk, (1903). 

147. II. LUELLA COLE, born in Norwalk, Mar. 9, 
1873, married at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 19, 1900 William 
John Bassett Nodine, [son of Alonzo and Emma (Reed) 
Nodine] born at Yonkers, N. Y., May 13, 1865. Occupa- 
tion liveryman, 156 Pierepont st., Brooklyn, N. Y., resi- 
dence 147 Ft. Green Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Chil. of Abram and Elizabeth (Van Hoosear) Fitch. 

[See No. 122, 123.] 

Chil. of George E. and Eliza J. (Fitch) Van Hoosear. 41 

148. I. JULIA, born April 28, 1862, died at Norwalk, 
July 17, 1870. 

149. II. JESSE, born Feb. 6, 1868, married June[385j 
27, 1886, Frederick Freudenthal, [son of Chas. and Henri- 
etta (Dreyer) Freudenthal.] Res. Norwalk, Ct. 

150. III. BERTIE MAY, born June 30, 1871. Unm. 
(1903). Music teacher. Res. Norwalk, Ct. 

151. IV. BLANCHE MAURICE, born Dec. 27, 1881. 
Res. with her parents. 

Chil. of James S. and Antoinette( Van Hoosear)Mead. 43 

152. I. WINFIELD, born July 13, 1862, married[286] 
Oct. 23, 1884, Angelina Dominge [dau. of La Clair & Annie 
(Morris) Dominge,] born at N. Y., Aug. 8, 1863. Occu. 
Salesman. Res. Danbury, Ct. 

153. III. HARRY, born Aug. 18, 1867, died with 
membranous croup, Nov. 3, 1872. 

154. IV. MINNIE BLANCHE, born Dec. 23, 1869, 
married May 23, 1893, Wm. J. Bell [son of Geo. and Eliza- 
beth (Jackson) Bell, of Danbury, Ct.] born in England, 
April, 1870. Res. Danbury. 

155. V. CLARENCE WILLIAM, born April 8, 1877. 
Unm. (1900). Res. Danbury. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 65 

Cliil. of Henry and Lncy E. (Johnson) Tan lloosear. 44 

156. I. HARllY WARREN, born at Norwalk, [288] 
Ct., —29, 1869, married at Worcester, Mass., Feb. 10, 1890 
Emma Blanche Sibley [dau. of Geo. Frederick and Charlotte 
Jane (Ashby) Sibly] born at N. Brookfield, Mass., Mar. 21, 
1868. Res. Worcester, Mass. (189i ). 

157. II. FRANCES LUCILE, born at So. Nor- [389] 
walk, Ct., Mar. 4, 1870, married at Worcester, Mass., Mar. 
21, 1892 Rev. Jay Scott Budlong-, [legally adopted son of 
Samuel Newell and Ellen Frances Budlong, 1873, and son 
of Charles Edward and Jennie (Farr) Spencer,] born at 
North Situate, R. I., July 20, 1859. Minister of the Epis- 
copal Church. Res. 1902, Ballard, Washington. U. S. A, 

158. III. EDITH GERTRUDE, born at So. Norwalk, 
Mar. 22, 1873, married at Worcester, Mass., Mar. 3, 1890, 
Charles WlUard Knight, [son of Samuel Willard and Julia 
(Phelps) Knight, she of Northampton, Mass.] born in 
Westfield, Mass., July 6. 1864. Occu. Salesman. Res. 1902, 
74 Sharon St., West Medford, Mass. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Chil. of Henry and Lncy A. (Pinney) Hoppson. 46 

159. I. WILLIE. 

160. II. . 

Chil. of Henry L. and Charlotte J.(Pinney)Bal)cock. 46 

161. I. JENNIE, born April. 1858. 

162. II. HERBERT, born Aug., 1868. 

Chil. of Chauncey T. and Percilla (Jones) Pinney. 49 

163. I. CARRIE, born Dec. 10, 1866. 

164. II. ALFORD, born May, 1870. 

Chil. of Henry A. and Catherine (Cooper) Pinney. 50 

165. I. FREDDIE, born Aug. 2, 1867. 

166. II. WILLIE, born Dec, 1874. 



66 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Curtis S. and Marion (Beebe) Pinney. 51 

167. I. HERMON, born Oct. 5, 1867. 

168. II. HOWARD, born Sept. 4, 1869. 

169. III. MABLE, born July 29, 1872. 

170. IV. ALISON B., born Sept. 8, 1879. 

Chil. of David and Laura A. (Pinney) Steele. 53 

171. I. IRA, born Aug. 1, 1867. 

172. II. BIRTHIE, born July 9, 1869. 

Chil. of Adelbert R. and Alisa (Rogers) Pinney. 54 

173. I. ELOUISE, born Sept., 1868. 

174. II. CHARLOTTE, born Nov., 1869. 

Chil. of Norman R. and Mary (Torry) Pinney. 55 

175. I. MERTIE, born Sept. 1875. 

Chil. of Henry D. and Nellie V. (Brown) Meeker. 73 

176. I. EDITH MAY, born Sept. 27, 1886. Res. with 
parents. 

177. II. FLORENCE LILLIAN, born Aug. 16, 1888, 
died May 16, 1891. 

178. III. LULUETTA, born March 10, 1891. 

Chil. of Willie R. and — (— ) Van Hoosear. 74 

179. I. , born before 1887. 

Chil. of Herbert J. and — (— ) Van Hoosear. 75 

180. I. , born before 1887. 

Chil. of Isaac and Nancy A. (Perkins) Carpenter. 79 

181. I. SUSIE LOUISE, born Feb. 1, 1850, [289a] 
married May 13, 1870, Paul W. Carroll. He (or she) died 
May 16, 1889. 

181a. II. NANCY ADALINE, born June 6, 1852, died 
Oct. 13, 1861. 

182. III. CHARLES, born June 19. 1854, married[289d] 
1st Oct. 10, 1878, Annie Farrist. Married 2d, Dec. 15, 1886 
Hannah Brown. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 67 

183. IV. ISAAC FRANCIS, born June 13,185G, married 
Mar. 11, 1878, Mary M. Johnson. No cliil. Res. Watrous, 
New Mexico, (1900). 

183a. V. ALZADIE, born in Hangtown. Col., [2H\)g] 
Aug. 1, 1858, married May 10, 1883, Tom. Carroll, born in 
Belfast, Ireland, July 4, 1841.. He died at Rock Springs, 
Wyoming. Res. Naples, Idaho, (1901). 

183b VI. ALWILDA, (twin) b. at Hangtown, [289h] 
Col., Aug. 1,1858, married 1st, May 18, 1880, Norman Jump. 
Married 2d, — , 1884, J. L. Cooper. She died Nov. 14, 1887 
at Fort Worth, Texas. 

183c. VII. GEOR(j|IE, born Jan. 13, 1801, died Sept. 
22, 18GI. 

184. VIII. WILLIAM EDWARD, born Feb. 27, 1864, 
died Aug. 5, 1888. 

Chil. of Joseph E. and Rhoda A)in(Carpenter)Mance. 80 

185. I. ISAAC WiCKAM, born Feb. 6, 1852, [291] 
married 1st, Aug. G, 1879 Miss Alice Yan Kenren, of Pine 
Bush, Orange Co., N. Y. She died at Texas, Aug. 10, 
1881, age 22 yrs., 10 mos. Married 2nd 1883, Flora Helms, 
at Eilenville, N. Y. She died Mar, -, 1885. Married 3rd, 
Dec. 29, 1887, Augusta Reed. Occu. carpenter and builder. 
Res. 265 W. 19th St., N. Y. 1902. 

186. II. JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 15, 1853, mar- [292] 
ried June 5, 1881 Charles Hooker Remer, of Penn Yan, N. 
Y. [son of Abram Van Norsdal and Sarah A. (Olney) Re- 
merj born July 31, 1846. Res. 1902, 212 E. 50th St., N. Y. 

187. III. JOSEPH SMITH, born at Eilenville, [29-lJ 
N. Y., Dec. 13, 1854, married at Thomaston, Ct., Jan. 6, 
1877, Annie E. Kilner, born at Vvalden, Orange Co., N.Y., 
Feb. 19, 1857. Occu. Prop. Hotel, Circle Ave., Eilenville. 
He died 1895. She 2nd married —. Res. (1900) Bridge- 
port, Ct. 

188. IV. GEORGE W., born Aug. 28, 1857, died Oct. 
G, 1875. Unmarried. 

189. V. STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS, born Nov. [300a] 
15, 1859, married May 13, 1891 Miss Mary Shaupp, of Eilen- 
ville, formerly of N. Y. City. Occu. Knife Maker. Res. 
Eilenville, N. Y. 

Chii. of Simon J. ami Julia Ann(Carpenter)Keator. 81 



68 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

11)0. I. 3IELVIN VALENTINE, born at Fre- [300b] 
mont Center, Sul. Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1854. Married at 
Equinunk, Wayne Co., Penn., Nov. G, 1878, Nora Aziiioii 
Jump, [dau. of Fredrick H. and Mary M. (Vaughn) Jump, 
of Equinunk, Penn.] born at Ashland, Green Co., N. Y. 
Jan. 31, 1859. His occu. farmer. Res. 1901, Pueblo, Colo. 

101. II. IIOUEIIT WHITE, born Feb. 37, 1855, died 
Sept. 26, 1876. Buried Union, Penn. 

192. III. CHARLOTTE ANN, born at Fremont Center, 
N. Y., June 36, 1859, married 1883, at Dodge City, Kansas 
Byroii F. Smitli. Last res. Aurora, 111. No children. 

193. IV. ISAAC JELLIFF, born at Fremont Center, 
N.Y., Oct. 14, 1863, married at Bethany, Wayne Co., Pa., 
Sept., 1885, Liicmda M. Miunford. 

194. V. ELIZAHETK MARY, born April 9, 1868, died 
at Union, Penn. about 1884. 

194a. VI. BENJAMIN LESLIE, born Sept. 36, 1874, 
died at Union, Penn. 1879. 

Chil. of Elijah and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Mance. 82 

195. I. MINNIE ANTOINETTE, born Sept. 33, [301] 
1855, married Nov. 1, 1873, Jaities iLiigli Collins, [son of 
James Courtney and Jane (Milne) Collins] born Feb. 33, 
1849. Occu. Ship Carpenter. Res. 108 Gieenpoint Ave., 
Greenpoint, E. D., N. Y. (1893). 

196. II. EDWIN CARPENTER, born April 7, 1859. 
Drowned in Ellenville Canal, Ulster, Co., N.Y., Aug. 1873. 

197. III. EMMA FKANCES, (Twin) b. at Ellen- i302j 
ville, N. Y., April 7, 1859, married at Brooklyn, N. Y., 
April 17, 1884, Fran.k Whe^der, [son of Warren and Cath- 
erine S. Wheeler j by Lewis Francis, Pastor of Kent St. 
Reformed Church; boi-n Jan. 30, 1857. 

198. IV. ISABELLA AVNA, born April 15, 1865[305] 
at (the Cape) Ulster Co., N. Y. Alarried Aug. 17, 1881, 
Enoch Eber Edwards [son of Joseph and Esther Ann (Nef- 
fen) Edwards) born June 38, 1869 at Dairyiand, N. Y. 
Occu. lumberman and farmer. Res. Livingston Manor, 
Sul. Co., N. Y. 

199. V. THEODORE, born May 10, 1867, at Ellenville, 
N.Y., died at (the Cape) Ulster Co., N.Y., May, 1868, with 
croup. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 69 

200. VI. LIZZIE, born April 17, 18G9, married at 
EUenville, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1889 or 90 Austin Pierce, of Havre 
De Grace, (son of Josiah D. and Sarah M. Pierce) born 
Sept. G, 18G9. No cliil. (1891). His res. Belias, Hartford 
Co., Md. (1891). Her. res. EUenville, N. Y. 

Cliii. of Saml. I. and Antoinette M. (Carpenter) Benson. 

83 

201. I. MARION W., b. May 23, 18G5, died Jan 25, '83. 

202. II. REUBEN JELLIFF, born Oct. 14, 18GG.[310] 
Married Sept. 1888, Marion Morris. Occu. Painter and 
Paper Hanger. Res. Middletown, N. Y. (1892). 

203. III. GEORGE L., born Feb. 12, 18G9, mar- [311] 
ried Feb. 1889, Rosie Aldricli. Occu. Cutter, Res. EUen- 
ville, N. Y. (1892). 

204. IV, JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 31, 1872, died Apr. 
10, 1875. 

205. V. WAIIREN M., born April 15, 1877, at school. 
Res. EUenville, N. Y, (1892). 

Chii. of Benjanil.i A. and Nancy J. (Groo) Carpenter. 85 

206. I. LUCY ALICE, born at Fallsburgh, N.Y., Oct. 
29, 18G-1, married Mar. 12, 1895. "Franli Sharp,"* of Nev- 
ersink, [son of Thomas and Almira (Everts) Travis] born 
Aug. 1, 18G8. No chil. (1900). Res. Neversink. 

207. 11. WILLIAM J., born at Fallsburgh, N.[312a] 
Y. June 28, 1867, married Sept. 28, 1892 Flora Bentonfdau. 
of George and Sarah (Hodge) Benton,] born Oct. 20, 1872. 
Res. (1900) Neversink. 

208. III. JOHN GROO, born at Fallsburgh, [312bJ 
N. Y., June 17, 1873, married Mar. 25, 189G, Alice Jones, 
[dau. of John B. and Sarah (Ilasbrouck) Jones] born Oct. 
— , 187G. Res. Liberty, N. Y. 

Chil. of Jar vis C. and Jane Ann (Jellilf ) Kile. 87 

209. I. OSCAR WILLARD, born Aug. 18G0. [313 j 
Married 1st, Feb. 22, 1883, Esther Mary Smith, [dau. of 
Samuel and Polly (Coon) Smith,] born Nov. 17, 18G4; died 
May 20, 18SG. Married 2d, April 19, 1890 Jessie Freemont 
Hall, [dau. of Mott and Jane (Devine) Hall,] born Mar. 
1861; diedAug. IG, 1890. Married 3d, Oct. 29, 19ol, Min- 

* Foster son of Wm. and Maria (Everts) Sharp. 



70 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

erva Gillett, [dau. of Reuben and Emeline D. (Marshall) 
Gillett,] born April 15, 1867. 

210. II. JOHN STEPHEN, born May 11, 18G3; died 
Jan. 10, 1883. 

211. III. DELIA ABIGAIL, born July 10, 1867; died 
July 18, 187l. 

Chil. of Isaac ami Joliaima (Porter) Jelliff. 88 

212. I. NYE COLFAX, born at Woodbourne, N. Y., 
Jan. 31, 1869, married Oct. 12, 1892 Miriam Pliilipya Totllill 
[dau. of Alfred* and Phiiippa Jane (Martin) Tothill] born 
Dec. 7, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. Occu. Glass Manufact- 
urer. No chil. (1901). Res. Orlean, N. Y. (1900). 

213. II. HATTIE MAY, born Feb. 26, 1875 in [HIBd] 
Liberty, N. Y. Married Nov. 8, 1893 at Neversink. N. Y. 
Andrew Bryers Towuseiid [son of Isaac & Mary (Bryers**) 
Townsend] born Jan. 31, 1866, at Greenfield, N. Y. Occu. 
Farmer. Res. Greenfield, N, Y. (19( 0), 

ChiL of Reuben R. and Martha A. (Gillett) Jelliff. 89 

214. I. PLUMA, born April 19, 1869, married Sept. 27, 
1898, Jay Simpson [son of James and Elizabeth (Gardner) 
Simpson] born Nov. 2 1869. Occu. Merchant. Res. So. 
Fallsburgh, N. Y. No chil. (1900). 

215. II. BERTHA, born Sept. 18, 1875, married June 
19, 1901, Orrin Purvis Sprague [son of Erastus and Mary 
(Purvis) Sprague] of Rockland, N. Y. (now called Living- 
ston Manor) born June 5, 1861. A member of the Mercan- 
tile firm Campbill, Sprague & Co. Res. Roscoe, N. Y. 

216. Ill, JESSIE ALEXIA, born Nov. 10, 1879, died 
June 29, 1881. Buried at Woodbourne, N. Y. 

Chil. of David H. and Lydia A. (Tyrrell) Palmer. 92 

217. I, ALICE, born May 16, 1862, married Apr.[314:] 
29, 1884, D. Frank McCord,[son of Abram and Rachel (De- 
puy McCord] born Feb. 3, 1854. Res. (P.O.) Centerville, 
N. Y. (1900). 

218. II. ETTIE, married Wm. M. T. Eckert. No chil. 
She died. H is res. Greenfield, N. Y. (1900). 

* He was born at Bristol, En^jland, Nov. 9, 1836; came to America in May, 
1853. His wife born Penan, Cornwall, Eng., Aug. 10, 1839; came to U. S., 
Sept. 1849. Married 1859. 

** Dau. of Rev. James N. Bryers. 




Benjamin Yernooy Merritt. No. 225. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 71 

219. MYRTLE, unm. Res. Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). 
Chil. of Wm. H. & Cornelia A.(Henclricksoii) Tyrrell. 93 
219a. I. CORA, born Feb. 23, 1870, married Herman 

Scott. [314a] 

219b. II. ISAAC B., born Sept. 11, 1875. Res. Mid- 
dletown, N. Y. 

219c. III. LESTER H., born Oct. 1, 1884, Res, Mid- 
dletown, N. Y. 

Chil. of Martin and Cornelia (Kinney) Merritt. 96 

220. I. GEOROE MARTIN, born Oct. 1, 1867. Unm. 
Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. (1900). Occu. Carpenter. 

221. II. SEYMOUR HORATIO, born July 23, 1870. 
Unm. Occu. Milk, etc., 495 7th Ave., N. Y. 1902. 

222. III. LILLIE BELLE, born Mar. 2, 1872, married 
Charles Armstrong (son of Stephen Armstrong, of Never- 
sink, N. Y.) Res. (1900) Woodbourne, N. Y. 

223. IV. HARTEY JAY, born Feb. 28, 1873, died Apr. 
15, 1887. 

224. V. FRANKIE, b. June 24, 1874, died Sept.6, 1874 

225. VI. BENJAMIN YERNOOY, born Nov. 1, 1875. 
Unm. Occu. Policeman, N. Y. 1902. 

226. VII. THORNTON LAYTON, born Mar. 28, 1878, 
married Mar. 28, 1900, Jennie Fnrnan (dau. of Orlando 
Furnan). Res. Woodbourne. 

227. VIII. WINFIELD HANCOCK, born Feb. 9, 1880. 
Unm. 1900. Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

228. IX. EMMA THERESSA, born Sept. 24, 1881, died 
Oct. 31, 1896. 

229. X. JENNIE BALL, born May 2, 1884. Unm. 

Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

Chil. of Daniel W. and Melissa (Pierce) Merritt. 97 

230. I. HIRAM, born Dec. 30, 1868, married Feb. [3 15] 
1884, Emeline Hern. Res. Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N.Y. 

Chil. of Joseph and Miranda L. (Smith) Merritt. 98 

231. I. LUCINDA, born Oct. 11, 1864, married [317] 

1st July 9, 1884, James Nield, of Cooks Falls, N. Y.[son of 
John and Mary Nield 1 born Sept. 22, 1856. Occu. Farmer. 



72 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Died Dec. 8, 1888. Married 2nd, Stephen Decker. She 
died — . 

232. II. JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 2, 1866, mar- [318] 
ried July 3, 1884, Henry Severing (son of Anthony and 
Mary Ann Severing) born Aug. 20, 1856. Occu. Farmer. 
Res. Ulster Hieghts, N. Y. (1900). 

232a. III. MARTIN F., died May 24, 1869, age 5 ra. 
26 days. 

232b. IV. WARD W., died Aug. 24, 187^ age 1 year, 
3 months. 

Chil, of Joseph and Lydia A. (Palmer) Merritt. 98 

233. VI. MARTIN FREER, born May 12, 1876. Res. 
Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). Unm. 

234. VII. LULU TYRELL, born July 9, 1878. [321a] 
married John Fiek. 

235. VIII. MATTIE M., born April 16, 1880. Unm. 
Res. Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). 

Chil. of Silas and Louise (Kortriglit) Merritt. 99 

236. I. DELBERT, born in Fallsburgh, Nov. 5, 1865, 
married Feb. 18, 1888, Louise E. Kneip (dau. of John and 
Mary Kneip) born July 1, 1866. No chil. Res. Hasbrouck, 
N. Y. (1900). 

237. II. SHERMAN HASBROUCK, born at [321c] 
Fallsburgh, Aug. 24, 1869, married Nov. 22, 1893, Sylvia 
Miller, [dau of Andrew Tabor and Sarah (Addis) Miller] 
Occu. Farmer. Res. Woodbourne, 1900. 

238. III. CORA ELLA, born at Fallsburgh, June[322] 
9,1872, married June 9, 1892, Herman Naeher [son of Fran- 
cis P. and Otelia Naeher] born Oct. 26, 18—. Occu. House- 
furnishings, 473 Grand St., Brooklyn, N. Y. (1900.) 

239. IV. FRANK M., born at Fallsburgh, Jan. [322c] 
23, 1875, married Susie Rexford [dau. of Horace and Elec- 
ta (Brown) Rexford]. Res. Centerville, N. Y. 

240. V. SARAH ETTA, born at Fallsburgh, [322d] 
N. Y., Mar. 1, 1879, married Mar. 3, 1897, John Pierce, 
[son of Michael D. and Sarapta (Gillett) Pierce] . Occu. 
farmer. Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

Chil. of Abner and Mary A. (Bilyen) Merritt. 100 




" RIVERVIEW HOISE." 

The residence of Martin Merritt, No. 96, situated 
on the banks of the Neversink River, a short distance 
north of Woodbourne, Sullivan County, N. Y. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 73 

341. I. HATTIE MARIA, b. Aug. 4, 1870, mar- [322] 
ried Sept. 28, 1892 Wm. M. Smith, [son of Thos. and Mary 
(Anderson) Smith]. Res. Hasbrouck, N.Y. Occu. farmer, 

242. II. NELLIE KERAN, born April 22, 1874, mar- 
ried Oct. 2, 1895, Richard G. Simpson, [son of Jas. and 
Elizabeth (Gardner) Simpson,] born April -, 1873. Occu. 
farmer. No chil. (1900). Res. So. Fallsburgh, N. Y. 

243. III. JOSEPH MADISON, born June 8, 1876, mar- 
ried IVIay 27, 1896, lona Depuy, [dau. of Darias and Susan 
Ann (Hasbrouck) Depuyl. 

244. IV. MINNIE MARY, born Feb. 16, 1882. Unm. 
Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 

Chil. of Demon and Reran E. (Merritt) Winner. 103 

245. I. HENRY. Res. De Bruce, N. Y. 
246 II. ANNA. 

247. III. NETTIE. 
247a. IV. EATHEN. 
247b. V. , born 1900. 

Chil. of George and Aurnnda (Kaul) Fitch. 106 

248. I. ELEANOR, b. Sept. 15, 1875, died June 10, '87. 

249. II. JENNIE, born Sept. 10, 1883. 

250. III. EARL, born Dec. 5, 1885. 

Chil. of George L. and Mary J. (Fitch) Cnshnian. 106 

251. I. ESTHER, born Jan. 7, 1876, married at Schy- 
lers Lake, Dec. 28, 1897, La Grande Southworth. 

251a. II. — boy, born 1893. 

Chil. of Harmon G. and Ella (Smith) Bowen. 109 

251b. . 

Chil. of Elisha and Rhoda (Conntryman) Ayres. Ill 

252. I. ANNA ELIZABETH, born Sept. 1865, married 
Oct. 1884, Oscar Hornbeck, born 1859. 

253. II. LEWIS, born Nov., 1867, died aged 4 yrs. 
264. III. IDA, born June, 1869. 

255. IV. ELMER, born March, 1872. 

256. V. WILLIAM, born Oct., 1878. 

257. VI. DOREATHA, born 1883. 



74 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Lewis and Mmerva(Silkwortli)Countrymaii. 112 

258. I. ARIA, born March 8 or 9, 1880. 

Chil. of Wm. H. and Rozzana(Stokes)Countrynian. 113 

259. I. WALTER WESLEY, born Mar. 19, 1880. 

260. II. LURETTA, born Sept., 1878. 

261. III. WILLIAM, born Jan. 3, 1884. 

Chil. of Nathan and Mary (Yaple) Countryman. 114 

262. I. LEWIS, born Jan. 1880. 

263. II. PHILLIP, born about 1883. 

Chil. of Barney and Anna M. (Countryman) Flynn. 115 

264. I. LURETTA, born Jan., 1881. 

265. II. , born 1884. 

Chil. of Aria and Martha(Countryman)Silkworth. 116 

266. I. MYRON, born 1882. 

266a. II. — (daughter) born Aug. 1883. 

Chil. of Herman D. and Catherine S.(Hasbrouck) Niles. 

118 

267. I. ANNA, born Dec. 6, 1873. 

267a. 11. EUOENE, born May 5, 1874, married[322j] 
Sept. 37, 1893, at Stone Ridge, N. Y., Maggie Delamates, 
born at Marbletown, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1873. 

267b. III. ARTHUR, born June 16, 1876, died June 
30, 1876. 

267c. IV. MARY, born April 15, 1878, married[322k] 
Jan. 1, 1896, Stephen J. Libolt, born Sept. 19, 1873, died 
April 13, 1900, at High Falls. Res. Wilber, N. Y. 

267d. V. JANET, born Aug. 7, 1880. 
267e. VI. FREDERICK, born Aug. 3, 1883, died Dec. 
24, 1883. 

267f . VII. CHARLES, born Feb. 3, 1885. Unm. 
267g. VIII. MAURICE, born June 8, 1888. Unm. 

Chil. of John and Anna (Tilson) Niles. 119 

267h. I. WILLIAM H., born Nov. 28, 1886. Unm. 
Res. (1900) High Falls, N. Y. 




dinton Q. Tan Hoosear. No. 270. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 75 

267i. II. ISABEL, born Oct 17, 1888. Unm. Res. 

(1900) Cooks Falls, N. Y. 

267 j. III. MABEL, born Nov. 13, 1890, died Jan.8,'91. 
Chil. of George I. and Harriet L.B.(Fitch)Haight. 122 

268. I. EARNEST VAN HOOSEAR HAIGHT, born 
Sept. 11, 1877, married — , Cornelia May Hoyt, [dau. of 
Ellas G, and Martha (Lessey) Hoyt] born June 18, 1875. 
Occu. Clerk. Res. (1900) New Milford, Ct. 

269. II. THEODORE MILTON, born Mar. 1881, Res. 
Ridgefield, Ct. (1900). 

Chil. of David H. and Sarah Jane (Quick) Van Hoosear 

129 

270. I. CLINTON QUICK, born at (Hurlbutt [323] 
Street) Wilton, Ct., Nov. 7, 1868, at 9.30 P. M. Married 
at 271 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1895, by 
Rev. John E. Adams, Miss Ada Louisa Lewin, of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. ! dau. of Isaac and Eliza Clifft (Mendenhall) 
Lewin, and grand dau. (paternally) of Wm. and Matilda 
(Watson) Lewin,— (maternally) Wm. and Sarah(Actlar) 
Mendenhall] born Oct. 11, 1870. He has a residence in 
Hurlbutt Street, where he lives. (1903). Occu. Mail Carrier 

Chil. of Charles B. and Mary (Ferris) Morehouse. 130 

271. I. FERRIS STEPHEN, born Dec. 11, 1865 [325] 
Married at Danbury, Ct., Oct. 3, 1888, by Rev. A. C. Hub- 
bard, Fannie D. Ballard, [dau. of Cyrus and Sarah E. 
(Lewis) Ballard, of Danbury.] He 2ud married at Port- 
chester, N.Y., by Rev. Sam'l Hunt, Sept., 1899, Miss Kath- 
leen Vt'illiams, [dau. of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams, of 
( Branch ville) Ridgefield, Ct.] His occu. City Surveyor, 
So. Norwalk, Ct. (1893). Res. Brancbville, Ct, 

Chil. of Lewis M. and Georgianna (Morehouse) 

Ryfenburgh. 131 

272. I. ANNA LOUISE DOROTHEA, born in [326] 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1866, married at Ridgefield, Ct., 
Jan. 1, 1887, Percy St. Clair Ackerman, of N. Y., born 
in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 18, 1866, [son of Aaron Crane* 
and Anna Elizabeth* (Bradbury) Ackerman.] He grad- 
uated at Wi lliston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. He 

* He born at Goshen, N. Y. She New York City. 



76 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

was interested in the Automatic Opera Glass Co., and 
acted as Advertising Agent for the Housatonic R. R. un- 
til absorbed by the Consolidated. He now resides at 
Wilton, Ct. (1903.) 

Cliil. of Addison A. and Isabella (Smith) Betts. 132 

273. I. FARliON SMITH, born Sept. 12, 1864, [327] 
married at So. Norwalk, Ct., Jan. 20, 1891, Miss Jennie 
Hall Byxbee, [dau. of Francis Franklyn and Alma Eliza- 
beth (Hall) Byxbee, of So. Norwalk, Ct.] He is Sec'y of 
St. John's Lodge. A. F. and A. M. Occu. of the firm of 
Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Co., Norwalk, Ct. (1903.) 

Chil. of Ferdinand B. and Anna (Waters) Smith. 133 

274. I. ROBERT IRVING, died 1870. 

275. II. MASON MORRELL, born June 5, 1871. [328] 
Married Miss Nellie Oarlick, [dau. of Chas. D. Garlickj 
Occu. Dry Goods. Res. Bridgeport, Ct. (1900). 

275a. III. CARRIE EUGENIA, born at Norwalk, Ct., 
Feb. 1873, married Nov. ]9, 1902, at 141 Main St., Norwalk, 
Ct., Preston Moore McClanahan [son of Edmund B. and 
Martha E. (Simmons) Mc Clanahan] born Nashville, Tenn. 
1868. Res. 457 W. 123d St., N. Y. 

276. IV. MADISON WELLS, born at So. Norwalk, 
Ct., April 14, 1878. Unm. At home (1900). 

CMl. of Daniel S. and Mary F. (Partrick) Abbott. 134 

277. I. CHARLES, born Aug. 29, 18G4, married 1890, 
Miss Mary Hill, [dau. of Moses and Mary (Goodsell) Hill, 
of Redding, Ct.] Occu, Blacksmith. He purchased the 
Hiram St. John Place in (Georgetown) Wilton, Ct., but 
removed to Cannons, where he resides. No chil. (1903). 

278. II. INFANT, b. Sept. 18, 1866, died Nov. 10, 1866. 
271). III. INFANT, b. Mar. 23, 1869, died June 8, 1869. 

280. IV. ARTHUR STFRGES, born July 18, [329] 
1870, married at N. Y., 1889, May Etta Banks, born Feb. 
12, 187;'., [dau. of Wesley Banks, of Weston, Ct.] Res. 17 
Cedar St., New Haven, Ct. (1900). 

281. V. RICHARD WILLIS, born Nov. 15, 1873, 
married by Rev. W. Holmes, June 27, 1900, Nettie Crabbe 
(dau. of Chas. Crabbe of Stamford). 



SIXTH GENERATION. 77 

Chil. of Henry B. and Mary F. (Partrick) (Abbott) 

Partrick. 134 

282. VI. MARTHA JANE, b. at Wilton, June [331] 
13, 1880, Married at Wilton, Sept. 28, 1898, Edwin Andrew 
Henderson, [son of Andrew and Isabel Henderson] of Nor- 
walk. Operator in Winnipauk Mills. 

CMl. of Arthur M. and Lucie (Dunaghe) Parke. 136 

283. I. LELA ALENA, born Jan. 22, 1882. Grad. 
High School at West Winsted, N.Y., June 1899. At home. 

284. II. EMMA, born April 17, 188-. At home. 

Chil. of Frederick and Jessie (Yan Hoosear) 

Freudenthal. 149 

285. I. JESSIE VAN HOOSEAR, born July 2, 1896. 

Chil of Philip R. and Helen B. (Van Hoosear) Kimball. 

139 
285a. I. PHILIP, born July 12, 1897. 
285b. II. WILLIAM EDWIN, born 1898. Died. 
285c. III. DEAN, born Dec. 1899. 
285d. IV. — dau. born April 14, 1901, died Aug. 1901. 

Chil. of John Edwin and Grace J. (Kennedy) 

Van Hoosear. 140 

285e. I. WILLIAM KENNEDY, born Feb. 1898. 

Chil. of William S. and Margaret (Stedman) 

Van Hoosear. 141 

285f. I. BURR STEDMAN, born Mar. 24, 1901. 

Chil. of Winfield and Angelina (Dominge) Mead. 152 

286. I. HATTIE BLANCHE, born Sept. U, 1885. 

Chil. of Wm. J. and Minnie B. (Mead) Beli. 154 

287. I. ANTOINETTE ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 24, 1894. 
Chil. of Harry W. & E. Blanch(Sibly) Yan Hoosear. 156 

288. I. ADAH LIICILE, born at Worcester, Mass., 
March 1, 1891. 

288a. II. MARGARET PIERCE, born at Worcester, 
Mass., Feb. 1, 1893, died Mar. 4, 1893. 



78 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

288b. III. HAROLD SIBLY, born at Worcester, Mass. 

June 2, 1897, died Nov. 27, 1898. 

Chil. of J. Scott and Frances Lucile (Van Hoosear) 

Biidlong. 157 

288c. T. ENID LUCILE, born at Providence, R. I., 
Jan. 13, 1893. 

288d. II. OLIVE ETHEL, born at Providence, R. I., 

Aug. 11, 1895. 

Chil. of Charles Willard and Edith Gertrude 

(Van Hoosear) Knight. 158 

288e. I. ALVAH JEWETT, born Mar. 1, 1890, died 
May 29, 1893. 

288f. II. HAROLD WILLARD, born Dec. 18, 1892. 
288g. III. HARRY VAN HOOSEAR, b. Aug. 3, 1895. 
289. IV. PHILLIP, born Oct. 18, 1897. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 



Chil. of Paul W. and Susie L. (Carpenter) Carroll. 181 

289a. I. PAUL T., born Feb. 8, 1870, married June 
12, 1894, Bertha Thaxter. Res. Oakland, California. 

289b. II. CHARLIE, b. Mar. 10, 1871, died Nov.14,1873 

289c. III. ADDIE LOUISE, born Sept. 9, 1875. Res. 
Oakland, California. 

Chil. of Charles and Annie (Farrist) Carpenter. 182 

289d. I. FLOYD, born Oct. 5, 1880. 

Chil. of Charles and Hannah (Brown) Carpenter. 182 

289e. II. CLARENCE, born Sept. 16, 1887. 
289f. III. FRANKIE, born Feb. 9, 1889. 

Chil. of Tom and Alzadia (Carpenter) Carroll. 183a 

289g. I. SUSIE LOUISE, born at Fort Collins, [332] 
Col. Feb. 15, 1883, married Mar. 2, 1899, Asa Alfred Ham- 
mons, [son of Henry Allen and Flora (Holzer) Hammons] 
born at Wabasha, Minn., June 26, 1873. Occu. Sheriff 
and Merchant. Res. Plains, Montana. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 79 

Chil. of Norman and Alwilda (Carpenter Jump) 183b 

289h. I. ZADIE M. J., born Feb. 18, 1881. Res. 
Canon City, Colorado. 

Chil. of J. L. and Alwilda(Carpenter)(Jump)Cooper. 183 

289i. I. WILLIE, b. Nov. 14, 1887. Address unknown. 
ChiL of Isaac W. and Alice (Van Keuren) Mance. 185 

290. I. FLOYD NEWTON, born April 23, 1880. Unra. 
Res. (1900) 100 8th Ave., N.Y. Occu. Gent's Furnishings. 

Chil. of Isaac W. and Augusta (Reed) Mance. 185 

' 291. II. LILLIAN AUGUSTA, born May 19, 1890, 

L died Sept., 1890. 

Chil of Charles H. and Josephine (Mance) Remer. 186 

292. I. ARTHUR, born at Middletown, N. Y., June 
6, 1882. Unmarried. Res. Flushing, L. I. Occu. Chief 
I clerk, L. I. Express office. 

I 293. II. JOSEPH, born at Goshen, N. Y., Jan. 19, 

1889, died Jan. 3, 1893. 

Chil. of Joseph S. and Annie E. (Kelner) Mance. 187 

294. I. BIRTIE CARPENTER, born at Knowles 

Bridge, Ct., Oct. 9, 1877. Res. EUenville, N. Y. (1900). 

295. II. GEORGIE WILLARD, born at EUenville, 
N.Y., Aug. 23, 1879. Unm. Res. EUenville. (1900). 

P 296. III. DORA ELIZABETH, born at EUenville, 

f N.Y., July 7, 1881. Unm. Res. Park Ave, Leonia, N. J. 

j (1900). 

t 297. IV. RHODA MAY, born at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 

20, 1883. 

:*> 298. V. EFFIE MAUD, born at EUenville, N.Y., Feb. 

i 24, 1885. 

)) 299. VI, JENNIE BOOTH, born at EUenville, N. Y., 

Feb. 7, 1887. 

300. VII. LILLIAN GRACE, born at EUenville, N.Y. 

Mar. 5, 1890. 



80 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Stephen A. Douglass and Mary (Sliauppj 

Mance. 189 

300a. I. GORMAN B., born Dec. 19, 1892. 

Chil. of Melvin Yalentine ami Nora Azmon (Jump) 

Keator. 190 

300b. I, II. TWOS, born at Equinunk, Penn. 
Sept., 1879. Died at birth. 

300c. III. LESLIE MELTIN, born at Pueblo, Colo., 
Jan. 1, 1881. 

300d. IV. NORMAN ISAAC, born at Pueblo, Colo., 
March 20, 1885. 

300e. V. COREIN BYRON, born at Pueblo, May 9, 
1889, died at Lake Side, (P. O.) Pueblo, May 6, 1893. 

300f. VI. RAYMOND WALBRON, born Nov. 10, 1892. 
Lake Side, (P. O.) Pueblo. 

Chil. of Jas. H. and Minnie A. (31ance) Collins. 195 

301. I. EDWIN MANCE, born at ''the Cape" near El- 
lenville, Ulster Co., N. Y., July dl, 1874. Occu. Special 
in P. O., Station W., Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y. (Feb. 1891). 

Chil. of Frank and Emma (Mance) Wheeler. 197 

302. I. ADDIE C, b. at Pine Bush, N.Y., Aug.81,'85. 

303. II. STELLA M., born at Pine Bush, N.Y., Aug. 
9, 1887. 

304. III. MINNIE FRANCES, born at Pine Bush, 
N. Y., June 3, 1889. 

Chil. of Enoch E. and Anna B. (Mance) Edwards. 198 

305. I. MINARD ELIJAH, born at Hasbrouck, N.Y., 
Mar. 2, 1882. 

306. II. ETHEL ESTHER,(twin) born at Hasbrouck, 
N. Y., May 30, 1885. 

307. III. EDITH ELIZABETH, (twin) born at Has- 
brouck, N.Y., died at Livingston Manor, N.Y., Apr.23,'91. 

308. IV. GRANT, born at Livingston Manor, N. Y., 
March 29, 1888. 

309. V. IZITA, born at Livingston Manor, N. y., 
died at Woodbourne, N. Y., June 28, 1891. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 81 

€hil. of Reuben J. and Marion (Morris) Benson. 202 

310. I. EDWIN J., born Aug, 22, 1889. 

Cliil. of George L. and Rosie (Aldrich) Benson. 303 

311. I. CHAMPLAIN J., born Aug. 22, 1890. 

312. II. MAY, born Sept. 29, 1891. 

Chil. of Wm. J. and Flora (Benton) Carpenter. 207 

312a. I. LLOYI), born Dec. 3, 1897. 

Chil. of Jolin G. and Alice (Jones) Carpenter. 207 

312b. I. PEARL GROG, born Oct. 10, 1897. 
312c. II. R0Y» born March 24, 1900. 

Chil. of Oscar W. and Esther Mary (Smith) Kile. 209 

313. I. REUBEN JOHN, born Dec 29, 1883. 

313a. II. ORA E., b. Apr. 80, 1886, died Aug. 24, '86. 

Chil. of Oscar W. and Minerva (Gillett) Kile. 209 

313b' III. ROY, born Aug. 22, 1892. 
313c. IV. LEE, born Sept. 2, 1899. 

Chil. of Andrew B. & Hattie May(Jelliff)Town8end.213 

3l3d. I. IRENE M., born July 1, 1899, at Greenfield, 
N. Y., died March 24, 1900. 

313e. II. HOMER JELLIFF, born at Greenfield, Ul- 
ster Co., N. Y., June 7, 1901. 

Chil. of D. Frank and Alice (Palmer) McCord. 217 

314. I. BELLA, died Feb. 2, 1891, age 5 mos. 19 days. 
Woodbourne cemetery. 

Chil. of Herman miA Cora (Tyrrell) Scott. 2 1 9a 

314a. I. HAZEL, born March 20, 1892. 

Chil. of Hiram and Emeline (Hern) Merritt. 230 

316. I. DANIEL, born — 26, 1885. 

316. II. NATHAN or WALTER? born July 16, 1887. 
316a. III. LYNN E., died Oct. 7, 1895, aged 2 mos. 

Chil. of James and Lncinda (Merritt) Nield. 231 

317. I. FLOYD J., born April 20, 1885. Res. Ellen- 
ville, N. Y. (1900.) 



82 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 

Chil. of Henry and Josephine (Merritt) Severing. 232 

318. I. GEORGE, born Feb. 12, 1886. 

319. II. FRANK, born Jan. 18, 1887. 

320. III. JOHN M., born Feb. 27, 1889. 

321. IV. CLENON J., born April 7, 1891, 

Chil. of John and Lnlu Tyrell (Merritt) Fiek. 234 

321a. I. . 

321b. II. . 

Chil. of Sherman H. and Sylvia (Miller) Merritt. 237 

321c. I. EVELYNE 0., born Nov. 30, 1896. 

32 Id. II. HAROLD, b. July 4, 1898, died Nov.8, 1899. 

Chil. of Herman and Cora E. (Merritt) Naeher. 238 

322. I. CORA ETTA, born Oct. 2, 1893. 

322a. II. ALMA, born Nov. 28, 1894. Res. 473 Grand 
St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

322b. III. HERMAN SILAS, born Oct. 6, 1897, 
Chil. of Frank and Susie (Rexford) Merritt. 239 

322c. I. H. M., born Aug. 26, 1898. 
Chil. of John and Sarah Etta (Merritt) Pierce. 240 
322d. I. YIVIAN S., born Aug. 6, 1898. 

Chil. of Wm. M. and Hattie M. (Merritt) Smith. 241 

322e. I. CHESTER MERRITT, born Feb. 9, 1894. 
322f. II. NELLIE MAY, born May or June 10, 1895. 
322g. III. LESTER ANDERSON, born March 3, 1897. 
322h. IV. EARLE JOSEPH, born Oct. 3, 1898. 

Chil. of Joseph M. and lona (Depuy) Merritt. 243 

322i. I. DOUGLASS DEPUY, born March 27-29, 1897. 

Chil. of Eugene and Magie (Delamates) Nlles. 267a 
322j. I. YERNON E., b. at High Falls, Apr. 16, 1894. 

Chil. of Stephen J. and Mary (Niles) Libolt. 267b 

322k. I. RAYMOND D., b. at High Falls, Sept. 5, '97. 




Ethel Cliift Tan Hoosear. No. 334. 



SEVENTFl GENERATION. 83 

CMI. of Earnest V.K. & Cornelia M.(Hojt) llalglit. 268 

8221. I. ALDEN LES8EY, born March 15 1898. 
332m. II. EDWAM) IlOBEllT, born Nov. 28, 1900. 

Chil. of Cliiitoii i}. and Ada L.(Lewm)yaii Hoosear. 270 

323. I. HAliOLB NASH, born at (Hurlbiitt St.) Wil- 
ton, Ct., Nov. 1, 1896. Died at Hurlbutt St., Feb. 12, 1897. 
Buried "Joe's Hill " cemetery. 

324. II. ETHEL CLIFFT, born at Hurlbutt Street, 
March 19, 1898. 

Cliil. of Ferris S. & Fannie D.(BalIard)Morehonse. 271 

325. I. MILDSED LOUISE, born at ( Branch ville,) 

Ridgefield, Ct., April 2, 1892. 

Cliil. of Percy St. C. and Anna L. B. (Kyfenburgh) 

Ackerman. 272 

326. I, LEWIS ST. CLAIE BURR, born at Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1887. 

Chil. of Farron S. ami Jennie (Byxbee) Betts. 273 

327. I. JENNESS ALMA, born Dec. 6, 1891. 

327a. II. ERWIN WEBEK, born Dec. 31, 1897, died 
April 21, 1898. 

Chil. of Mason M. and Nellie (Garlick) Smith. 275 

328. I. LOSING FERDINAND BURR, born at Strat- 
ford, Ct., Nov. 18, 1890. 

Chil. of Arthur Sturges and May E.(Banks) Abbott. 280 

329. I. ELSIE MAY, born in Norwalk, June 24, 1890. 

330. II. CLARENCE SYLTESTER, born in South 
Norwalk, July 18, 1892. 

Chil. of Edwin A.k Martha J.(Partrick)Henderson. 282 

331. I. FLOYD EARL, born April 9, 1900. 

Chil. of Asa Alfred and Susie Louise (Carroll) 

Hamnions. 289g 

332. I. LESLIE ALLEN, born at Plains, Mont., Mar. 
6, 1901 



INDEX BY NUMBER. 



♦ 


A 

ABBOTT, 




ANDERSON, 

Mary, 

ARMSTRONG, 


241 


BARNES, 

Lewis, 

BARNUM, 


7 




Arthur Sturges, 


280 


Charles, 


222 


George H., 


123 




Charles, 


277 


Stephen, 


222 


George Raymond, 


123 




Clarence Sylvester,330 


ASH BY, 




Levi, 


7 


/ 


Daniel Sturges, 


134 


Charlotte Jane, 


156 


BEDIENT, 






Ebenezer Jr., 


7 


AYERS, 




Abigail, 


34 




Elsie May, 
Elizabeth, 
George Benjamin, 
Lewis, 128 


329 
37 

128 
,134 


Anna Elizabeth, 

Doreatha, 

Elisha, 

Elmer, 

Ida, 


252 
257 
111 
255 
254 


BEEBE, 

Aaron, 
Marion, 


25 
51 




Martha Jane, 


282 


William, 


25 




Michael, 


128 


Lewis, 


253 


BEERS, 






Richard Willis, 


281 


William, 


256 


Polly, 


33 


h 


Sarah, 

070 


7 
279 


B 




BELL, 

Antoinette E., 






' id \ 


287 




ACKERMAN, 






George, 


154 




Aaron Crane, 


272 


BABCOCK, 




William, 


154 


- 


Percy St. C, 


272 


Henry L., 


46 


BELDEN, 






Lewis St. C. B., 


326 


Herbert, 


162 


John (Mrs.), 


2 




ACTLER, 

Sarah, 


270 


Jennie, 
BAILEY, 


161 


BENEDICT, 

Smith, 


7 




ADAMS, 


PTf 


Nina Burwell, 


126 


BENHOZIER, 






Mr. , 


57 


Samuel C, 


126 


David. 


7 




ADDIS, 








J^^ ^m^f » ^ v.* y 






Sarah, 


237 


BALLARD, 




BENNETT, 










Cyrus, 


271 


John, 


42 




ADKINS, 

David L., 


21 


Fannie D., 


271 


BENSON, 






Lewis, 


21 


BANGS, 




Chaplain J., 


311 




AIKEN, 

Emeline, 


130 


William N., 
BANKER, 


37 


Edwin J., 
George L., 
Jerome, 


310 

203 

16 




ALDRICH, 




Gerard, 


2 


Josephine, 


204 


. 


Rosie, 


203 


BANKS, 




Marion W., 


201 




ALLEN, 




Etta May, 


280 


May, 


312 


\ 


James, (Capt.) 


79 


Sarah, 


7 


Neal S., 


83 




Reuben, 


7 


Sarah Ann (Wid) 


., 31 


Reuben Jeliff, 


202 


» 


AMBLER, 




Seith, 


7 


Samuel L, 


83 




James, 


42 


Wesley, 


280 


Warren M., 


205 



86 



VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



BENTON, 


( 


Flora, 


207 


George, 


207 


BERGEN, 




Johannes, 


Intro 


Rachel, 


Intro 


BESLEY, 




Bartholomew, 


18 


Coles, 


18 


Cornelia, 


18 


Elizabeth, 


18 


Isaac, 


18 


James, 


18 


Mary, 


18 


Oliver Jr., 


18 


Samuel, 


18 


Susannah, 


18 


BEST, 




Addie, 


140 


BETTS, 




Addison A., 


132 


Burr, 


38 


Erwin Weber,, 


327a 


Farron Smith, 


273 


Ira Jr., 31,132 


Jenness Alma, 


327 


William G., 


2 


BILYEU, 




Cornelius, 


100 


Mary, 


100 


BISBIE, 




Mary, 


139 


BLACHLEY, 




Benjamin, 


5 


Lydia, 


5 


BLACK, 




Catherine, 


88 


BLOOMER, 




Rachel, 


99 


BOLTON, 




Esther, 


106 


BOWEN, 




in9 


251b 
23 


, 1U8 

Eleazer, 


Harmon Gilbert, 


109 


Hudson, 


107 


BRADBURY, 




Anna Elizabeth, 


272 


BRIES, or BREASE, 


Anthony, (Capt] 


. 2 



BROOKS, 

Sophia, 136 
BROWN, 

Abner, 14 
B. F., 130, 131 

Electa, 239 

Emma Ophelia^ 71 

Hannah, 182 

Levi O., 7,14 

Nellie Van, 72 

Rachel Ann, 38 

BRUNDAGE, 

Lain, 16 

BRUSH, 

Bill, 7 

Jake, 7 

BRYERS, 

James N., (Rev.) 213 

Mary, 213 

BUDLONG, 

Ellen Frances, 157 

E. Lucile, 283c 

Jay Scott, 157 

Olive Ethel, 288d 

Samuel Newell, 157 

BURRELL, 

(Capt.), 2 

Samuel, 4 

William, 2 

BUSSY, 

Elizabeth, 101 

BUTTERFIELD, 

, 60 

BYXBEE, 

Francis Franklyn, 273 

Jennie Hall. 273 



C 



CADWELL, 

Jacob, 
CAMPBILL, 

Sprague & 

CANFIELD, 

John, 

CARBURY, 

Nellie, 

CAREY, 



Co. 



1 

215 

7 

38 

4 



CARPENTER, 




Abigail, 


16,84 


Alwilda, 


lS3b 


Alzadia, 


183a 


Antoniette, 


16 


Antionette M., 


83 


Benjamin, 


16 


Benjamin Almon, 85 


Charles, 


182 


Charlie, 


184 


Clarence, 


289e 


Edward, 


16,78 


Elizabeth. 


16,82 


Floyd, 


289d 


Frankie, 


289f 


Georgie, 


183c 


Isaac Francis, 


183 


Isaac Jelliff, 


79 


John Groo, 


208 


Julai Ann, 


81 


Lloyd, 


312a 


Lucy A., 


206 


Lydia, 


16 


Lydia Maria, 


77 


Nancy, 


16.86 


Nancy Adaline, 


181a 


Pearl Groo, 


312b 


Rhoda, 


1« 


Rhoda Aan, 


SO 


Roy, 


312c 


Samuel, 


16 


SuF.ie Louisa, 


181 


William E.. 


184 


William J., 


207 


CARMAN, 




Sarah M., 


101 


CARR, 




Tabitha, 


87 


CARROLL, 




Addie Louise, 


289c 


Charlie, 


289b 


Paul T., 


289a 


Paul W., 


181 


Susie Louise, 


289g 


Tom, 


183a 


CASWELL, 




Helen, 


38 


Mary Ann, 


38 


Thos,. 


38 


Warren Levi, 


38 



INDEX. 



87 



CHAPMAN, 




Joseph (Dt.), 


7 


Mr. , 


2 


Phineas, 


7 


CHARLES, 




v., 


Intro 


CHEESMAN, 




Eleatheer, 


8 


CLAPP, 




Chester D., 


61 


Chilli&sa A., 


62 


Emerson, 


11 


Homer, 


64 


Mary, 


63 


CLARK, 




Phebe Jane, 


25 



CLEARWATER, 

Abram, 21 

Teunis., 21 

CLEAVELAND, 

William, 4 

COENRAETSE, 

Hendrick, Intro 

COLE, 

Emily, 39 

Jacobus, (Capit.), 2 

Jonothan, 39 

Sherman, 39 

Thomas. 39 

COLEY, 

H. B., 31 

Lois, 2 

COLLINS, 

Edwin Mance, 301 

James Courtney, 195 

James Hugh, 195 

COLWELL, 

Lucuida, 



COMSTOCK, 

John, 

COOK, 

Sarah, 
COON, 

Polly, 

COOPER, 

Catherine, 
J. L., 
WUlie, 



98 

7 

30 

209 

50 

183b 

2891 



COUNTRYMAN, 

Anna Maria, 115 

Aria, 258 

Esther Mary, 117 
Lewis, 112, 262 

Luretta, 260 

Martha, 116 

Nathan, 114 

Peter, 24 

Phillip, 263 

Rhoda, 111 

Walter Wesley, 259 

Wilber Nelson, 110 

William, 261 

William Henry, 113 

COWENHOVEN, 

Jacob, 1 

CRABBE, 

Charles, 281 

Nettie, 281 

CROCKER, 

Nelson, 4 

CUMMINGS, 

Charlotte, 22 

James, 22 

CUSHMAN, 

, 257a 

George L., 106 

Lee, 106 



D 



DAVENPORT, 

Hanford, 
DAVIS, 

Frances E., 

DAVISSON, 
Martha A., 

DECKER, 

Stephen, 

DE FOREST, 

Cornelia, 
DELAMATES, 

Magie, 
DEPUY, 

Darias, 

lona, 

Rachel, 



37 
146 

72 
231 

18 

267a 

243 
243 
217 



DERIKE, 




Jannetje Jans, 


Intro 


DEVINE, 




Ja.ne, 


209 


DE WITT, 




Emily, 


100 


James, 


100 


DICKSON, 




Charles, 


37 


DIETS, 




John, 


25 


DOLSON, 




Mary, 


104 


DOMINGE, 




Angelina, 


152 


LaClair, 


152 


DONAGHE, 




Harriet Amelia, 


136 


Henry, Sr., 


36 


Henry, Jr., 


36 


Lucie Amelia, 


136 


DOTY and MORRIS, 42 


DRAKE, 




Martha, 


89 


DREYER, 




Henrietta, 


149 


DRUMMAN, 




Pamelia, 


36 


DUDLEY, 




"Major," 


31 



E 



EAN, 

Anna, 118 
EARLE and SMITH, 133 
ECKERT, 

William M. T., 218 

EDWARDS, 

Edith Elizabeth, 307 

Enoch Eber, 198 

Ethel Esther, 306 

Grant, 308 

Izita, 309 

Joseph, 198 

Minard Elijah, 305 



88 



VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 



EVANS, 

H. Clay, 
Maria J., 
Samuel, 
Sophia, 

EVERTS, 

Almira, 
Maria, 



2 
96 
96 
96 

206 
206 



FARR, 

Jennie, 157 

FARR I ST, 

Annie, 182 

FERRIS, 

Mary F., 130 

Stephen (Capt.) Jr. 130 

FIEK, 

, 321a, 321b 

234 



John, 

FILLOW, 

Phebe, 31 

Lewis P., 31 
FINCH, 

William, 31 

FITCH, 

Abram, 27, 40 

Antionette, 25 

Ann Mariah, 20 

Barle, 250 

Efeleiry Greorge, 127 

Eleanor, 248 

Eliza J., 41 
Elmer Ellsworth, 126 

E3izabeth, 28 

Ester Mary, 21 

George, 105 
Georgia Dorathea, 123 

Harriet L. B., 122 

Jennie, 249 

Joseph, 121 

Lewis, 30 

Lucretia, 23 

Luke, 7 

Martha Jane, 29 

Mary Jane, 106 

Nathan, 22 



Silas Martin, 120 

Susan, 24 
William, 26, 41 

William J., 6 
William, Senior, 6 

FOLSON, 

John, 2 

FONDA, 

Jelles A., 2 

FURNAN, 

Jennie, 226 

Orlando, 226 

FRANCES, 

Lewis, (Rev.) 197 

FREER, 

P.uth, 21 

FREUDENTHAL, 

Charles, 149 

Frederick, 149 
JessieVanHoosear, 285 

FLYNN, 



Barney, 
Luretta, 
FULLER, 
Matthias, 



115 
264, 265 



GARDINER, 

Elizabeth, 

GARLICK, 

Charles D., 
Nellie, 
GERRITES, 

Laykas, 

GIBBS, 

Samuel, 

GILBERT, 

Betsey, 
Ebenezer, 
Harmon, 
Mary, 

GILLETT, 

Charity, 
Esither A., 
Martha Ann, 

Minerva, 



214, 242 

275 
275 

Intro. 

4 

37 
37 

7 
37 

103 

120 

89 

209 



Reuben, 
Sarapla, 
Tryphena, 
Zopher, 

GODFREY, 

Joseph, 
S., 
GOODSELL, 
M:ary, 

GRAY, 

Hannah, 
John G., 

Thaddeus, 

GREGORY, 

Cemantha, 

Isaiah, 

Jabez, 

GROO, 

Abigail, 

John, 

Nancy Jane, 
GRUBER, 

Maud, 
GRUMMAN, 

Permela, 

Seth L., 
Smith, 
GUIRE, 

Mary, 



209 

240 

92 

89 

1 
7 

277 

95 
18 
18 

36 
7 
4 

17 

85 
85 

38 

7,36 

31 

7 



' HAIGHT, 

Earnest Van, 268 
Edward R^obert, 322 m 

George, 122 

George I., 122 

Priest, 34 

Sylvanus, 2 

Theodore M., 267 

HALL, 

Alma E., 273 
Jessie Freemont, 209 

Mott, 209 

Rev. Dr., 31 

MAMMONS, 

Asa Alfred, 289g 

Henry Allen, 289g 

Lester Allen' 332 



HANFORD, 

Elnathan, 
Hezekiah, 
Hezekiati, Jr., 
Samuel, 
Sarah., 
Thomas, Rev., 

HARDINGBURGH, 

Gerard, 
Johannis, 
HARDING, 

Francis, 
Cornelius W., 

HARDINGH, 

Frank, 

HAS3R0UCK, 

Anna, 
Anthony, 



7,318 

7 

7 

7,31 

7 



5 
5 

Intro 
5 

Intro 

120 
5 



Catherine Snyder, 118 



Jacob, 
Sarah, 
Susan Ann, 

HAW LEY, 

Zalmon, 

HEACOCK, 



HELMS, 
Flora, 

HENDERSON, 

Andrew, 
Edwin Andrew, 
Floyd Earl, 
Isabel, 

HENDRICKSON, 

Blake, 

Cornelia A., 
HENSDEN, 

Jacob, den 
HERN, 

Em el in e, 

HILL, 

Gersham, 

Mary, 

Moses, 

HODGE, 

Roswell, 
Sarah, 



118 
208 
243 

4 



185 

282 
282 
331 

282 

93 
93 

intro 

230 

36 

277 
36, 277 

5 
207 



INDEX. 
HOLLISTER, 



m 



HOLMES, 

Cornelia, 
W., (Rev.) 
Wright, 

HOLZER, 

Flora, 

HOOSE, 

Rinear, 

HOOZER, 
Ga'l., 

HOSEN, 

Rinen, 

HOPPSON, 

Henry, 

Wilie, 



HORSECK, 
Oscar, 

HORTON, 

Nath'l., (Capt.) 
Sally Ann, 
William, 

HOYT, 

Cornelia May, 
Ellas G., 
Jonothan, Jr., 
Lewis, 
Susannah, 

HUBBARD, 
A. C. (Rev.) 

HUMPHREYS, 
E. B., 

HUNT, 

Samuel (Rev.) 

HURD, 



HURLBUTT, 

Daniel, 
Isaac, 

Susan, 

HYATT, 
Susan J., 



95 

281 

95 

289j 

Intro 

Intro 

Intro 

45 
159 
160 

252 

2 

22 
22 

268 

268 

7 

7 

35 

271 

Intro 

271 

4 

128 

2 

39 

123 



i 



IRVING, 

Washington, 



J 



JACKSON, 

Elizabeth, 



JELLIFF, 
Antionette M., 
Bertha, 
Curtis Beach, 
David Rynear, 
George, 
Hattie May, 



X54 
4 

16 
215 
17 
19 
90 
213 



Isaac, 4, 5» 17, 88 

James, 5 

Jane Ann, 87 

Jessie Aexia, 216 

Nye Colfax, 212 

Pluma, 214 

Reuben Reynolds, 89 



Rhoda Ann, 


18, 98 


JENNINGS, 




Celia, 


60 


Isaac, 


4 


John, 


10 


William, 


10 


JOHNSON, 




Lucy Ellen, 


44 


Mary M., 


183 


JONES, 




Alice, 


208 


John B., 


208 


Paul, 


7 


Percillia, 


49 


Samuel F., 


7 


JUDSON, 




Isaac, 


7 


JURRIAANSE, 




Volkie, 


Intro 


JUMP, 




Frederick H., 


190 


Nora Azmon, 


190 


Norman, 


183b 


Zadie M. J., 


289h 



I 



90 



VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



K 



KANE, 

Axunda, 

KEATOR, 

Benjamin Leslie, 194a 
Charlotte Ann, 192 
Corbin Byron, 
Elizabeth, 
Esther Mary, 
Isaac Jelliff, 
Leslie Melvin, 



105 



300e 
193 
194 
193 

300c 



Melvin Valentine, 190 



Norman Isaac, 
Raymond W., 
Robert White, 
Simon J., 



300d 
300f 
191 
81 
, 300b 

KENDALL, 

Lucy, 133 

KENNEDY, 

Duncan Cameron, 140 
Grace Julia, 140 

KILE, 

Benjamin, (Dr.) ..87 

Delia AbigaU, 211 

Jarvis Carr, 87 

John S., 210 

Lee, 313c 

Ora E., 313a 

Oscar Willard, 209 

Reuben John, 313 

Roy. 313b 

KIMBALL, 
Dean, 285c 
Edwin, 139 
Philip, 285a 
Philip Richard, 139 
William Edwin, 285b 
dan., 285b 

KILNER, 

Annie E., 187 

KINNEY, 

Cornelia, (Wid.) 96 

KNAPP, 

Charles, 2 

William, 2 



KOURTRIGHT, 

Lawrence, 
Louise, 

KNEIP, 

John, 
Louis© E., 
Mary, 

KNIGHT, 

Alvah Jewett, 
Charles Willard, 
Harold Willard, 
Harry VanH., 
Jonothan, (M.D.) 
Phillip, 
Samuel Willard, 

KROM, 
Conrad, 
Phebe B., 



LAYTON, 

Cornelia, 
Nathan, 

LEATON, 

Sarah Rosa, 
William Carey, 

LEE, 

Alvira, 
Daniel, 
Genl., 

LESSEY, 

Martha, 
LEWIN, 
Ada Louise, 
Isaac, 
William, 

LEWIS, 

Dorothy, 
Sarah E., 

LIBOLT, 
Raymond D., 

LINDLEY, 

Elind, 
Stephen J., 
LISCAT, 

1 Obedlah, 





LIVINGSTON, 




99 


Henry B., (Col.) 


2 


99 


Henry D., 
LOCKWOOD, 


2 


236 


Phebe, 


35 


236 


Titus, 


7 


236 


LOW, 






Henry R., 


89 


288e 


LYON, 




158 


Sarah, 


36 


288f 






288g 

31 

289 


M 




MANGE, 




158 


Birtie Carpenter, 


294 




Dosa Elizabeth, 


296 


101 

■1 Al 


Edwin Carpenter 


196 


Effie Maud, 


298 


101 


Elijah, 


82 




Emma Frances, 


197 




Floyd Newton, 


290 




George, 


80 


96 
96 


George W., 


188 


Georgie Willard, 


295 


Gorman B., 


300a 




Isaac Wickam, 


185 


44 


Isabella Anna, 


198 


44 


Jennie Booth, 


299 




Joseph E., 80,82 


9 


Joseph Smith, 


187 


7 


Josephine, 


186 


7 


Lillian Augusta, 


291 




Lillian Grace, 


300 


268 


Lizzie, 


200 




Minnie A., 


195 


270 
270 
270 


Rhoda Antionette, 16 


Rhoda May, 


297 


Stephen A. D., 


189 


Theodore, 


199 


131 


MARAQUAT, 


5 


271 


MARSHALL, 


V 




Emeline D., 


209 


322k 


MARTIN, 






Philippa Jane, 


212 


7 


McCORD, 




267c 


Abram, 


217 




Bella, 


314 


4 


D. Frank, 


217 



INDEX. 



91 



McCLANAHAN, 

Edmund B., 275a 

Preston Moore, 275a 

McLEAN, 

Francis Fisk, 133 

Grenevra Bessie, 133 

MEAD, 
Clarence "William, 155 
Harry, 153 

Hattie Blanche, 286 
James Stanley, 43 
Minnie Blanche, 154 
William, 43 

Winfield, 152 

MEEKER, 
Edith May, 176 

Florence Lillian, 177 
72 
72 
178 



Lucinda, 
Liulu Tyrell, 
Lynn E., 
Madison, 
Martm, 



231 

234 

316a 

101 

96 



Harry, 

Henry DeWitt, 

Luluetta, 

MENDENHALL, 

Eliza Clifft, 270 

William, 270 
MERRITT, 

Abner, 100 
BenjaminVemooy, 225 

Caleb, 20 

Cora Ella, 238 
Daniel, 36, 315 

Daniel Webster, 97 

Delbert, 236 

Douglass D., 322i 

Emma Theressa, 228 

Eveline G., 321c 

Frank M., 239 

Frankie, 224 

George Martin, 220 

Harold, 321d 

Harvey Jay, 223 

Hattie Maria, 241 

H. M., ' 322c 

Hiram, 230 

Jennie Ball, 229 
Joseph, 92, 98 

Joseph Madison, 243 

Josephine, 232 

Keran Esther, 103 

Lillie Belle, 222 



Martin F. 20, 232a, 333 
Ma.tie M., 236 

Minnie Mary, 244 

Nellie Keran, 242 

Sarah Etta, 240 

Seymour Horatio, 221 
Sherman H., 237 

Silas, 99 

Thornton Layton, 226 
Walter or Nathan, 316 
Warren, 102 

William Fitch, 95 

William Henry, 104 
Willis J., 36 

Winfield Hancock, 227 

MIDDLEBROOK, 

Sarali, 7 

MILNE, 
Jane, 195 

MILLER, 

Andrew Tabor, 
Sylvia, 
MiSNER, 
Henry, 
Margaret, 
Peter, 

MOREHOUSE, 

Charles, 33 

Charles Burr, 33, 130 

Fferris Stephen, 271 

Georgianna, 

Lydia, 

Mildred Louise, 

Stephen, 

MORGAN, 

Stephen, 

MORRIS, 

Annie, 
Marion, 
Moirris & Doty, 

MORRISON, 

Morrisson & Co., 39 



237 
237 

5 

10€ 

5 



131 
31 

325 
33 



152 

202 

42 



MUMFORD, 

Lucinda M., 

MUNCHERT, 
Rinier, 



N 



NAEHER, 

Alma, 
Cora Etta, 
Frances P., 
Herman, 
Hermaa Silas, 
Otelia, 

NASH, 

Daniel, 
Daniel, Sr., 
Edward H., 
Sarah. (Sally), 



NEFFEN, 

Esther Ann, 

NICHOLS, 

Harriet, 

NIELD, 
James, 
Floyd J., 
Mary, 

NILES, 

Anna, 

Arthur, 

Charles, 

Eugene, 

Frederick, 

Herman David, 



193 
2 



Isabel, 
Janet, 

John Lester, 
Joseph, 
Mabel, 
Mary, 
Maurice, 
Silas Martin, 
Simeon, 
Vernon E., 
William H., 
NIPTON, 
Nappy, 



322a 
322 
238 
238 

322b 
238 

7,31 

7 

31 

7 

198 

129 

231 
317 
231 

267 
267b 
267f 
267a 
267e 

118 

267g, 2671 

267d 

25, 119 

121 
267j 
267c 
267g 

120 

25 

322j 

267h 



92 



VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 



NODINE, 




PARTRIDGE, 




Alonzo, 


147 


Ahiah, 


43 


William, J. B., 


147 


PATTERSON, 




NORTHROP, 




Agnes, 


141 


Stephen, 


4 


PEARSALL, 








Sa.muel, 


5 







PERKINS, 






Absolem, 


79 


OBER, 

Miimie L„ 


61 


Na.ncy Adaline, 


79 






PHELPS, 




OLMSTEAD, 




Julia, 


158 


Edward, 


42 


PHILLIP, 




Gardner, 


4 


n, 


Intro 


Hawley, 
Nathan, 


7 
4 


PIDGEON, 

Mr. ., 


2 


Phebe, 


4 


Samuel, 


4 


PIERCE, 








Austin, 


200 


OLNY, 




EmelLne, 


97 


Sarah A., 


186 


Hiram, 


97 


OYSTERHOUT, 




John, 


240 


Isaiah D., 


104 


Josiah D., 


200 


Mahala, 


104 


Melissa, 


97 






Michael D., 


240 


P 




Sarah M., 


200 




Vivian S., 


322d 


PALMER, 




PINNEY, 




Alice, 


217 


Adelbert R., 


54 


Benjamin F., 


92 


Alford, 


164 


David P. Hall, 


92 


Alison B., 


170 


Emily, 


85 


Carrie, 


163 


Ettie, 


218 


Charlotte, 


174 


Lidia A., 


98 


Charlotte Jane, 


46 


Myrtle, 


219 


Chauncey T., 


49 


PAMELEPIET, 




Curtis S., 


51 




Intro 


Edward S 


47 


f 


Elouise, 


173 


PARKE, 

Arthur Moore, 


136 


Franklyn; H., 
Freddie, 


52 
165 


Byron, 
Emma, - 


136 

284 


Henry A., 
Herman,, 


50 

167 


Lela Alena, 


283 


Howard, 


168 


PARTRICK, 




John J., 


8 


Charles, 


35 


Laura Augusta, 


53 


Burt, 


134 


Lucy A., 


45 


Halsey, 


35 


Mabel, 


169 


Henry Burr, 


134 


Mertie, 


175 


Martha J., 


282 


Norman R., 


55 


Mary Frances, 


134 


Smith, 


8 



William T., 


48 


Willie, 


166 


PLATT, 




Emily, 


14 


Joseph, 


14 


POPE, 




Allen, 


28 


David, 


28 


Esther Mary, 


124 


William, 


125 


PORTER, 




Henry, 


88 


Johanna, 


88 


PURPLE, 




Herman D., 


118 


Jasper, 


25 


PURVIS, 




Mary, 


215 


PUTNAM, 






2 


9 


Q 




QUICK, 




Samuel P., 


129 


Sarah Jane, 


129 


Thaddeus Smith, 


129 


QUINLAN, 






ff 


QUINTARD, 


Rebecca, 


42 


R 




RAYMOND, 




Alfred, 


2 


Haiiiet, 


41 


Piatt, 


2 


REED, 




Augusta, 


185 


Emma, 


147 


Liddy, 


15 


Mary LaV., 


30 


William, 


30 


REMER, 




Abram V. N., 


186 


Arthur, 


292 


Charles Hooker, 


186 


Joseph, 


293 



INDEX. 



93 



REYNOLDS, 

Abigail, 
Reuben, 
REXFORD, 
Horace, 
Susie, 

RHOEDS, 

Jarvis, 

RICHARDS, 

Mary A., 

RIDDLE, 

Mary, 
Cyrus, 

Nathan Lewis, 
Sarah, 

ROBERTS, 
Jane, 

ROCKWELL, 

Joseph (Mrs.) 
ROGERS, 

Alisa, 

ROOT, 
Charles B. J., 

ROOTENBURGH, 



ROSE, 

Susan, 

RUSCOE, 

Cyrus, 
Harriet Esther, 

RYERSON, 

Nancy, 

RYFENBURGH, 
Anna L. D., 
Lewis Milton, 
Peter, 



SACKET, 

Samuel (Capt.) 

SANFORD, 

Aaron, 

SAXTON, 

Sara Rosa, 



William Bacon. 



17 
17 

239 
239 

1 

37 

57 
10 

58 
59 

126 

2 

54 

133 

25 
44 

146 
146 



272 
131 
131 



2 
4 

44 

44 
44 



SCOTT, 

Hazel, 
Herman, 

SCRiBNER, 

Charles, 

SEARS, 

William, 

SELLECK, 

C. M., Rev., 

SEVERING, 

Anthony, 
Clencn J., 
Frank, 
George, 
Henry, 
John M., 
Ma-ry Ann, 

SHARP, 

Prank, 
"William, 

SHAUPP, 
Mary, 

SHERWOOD, 

John, 
Rev. ,. 



314a 
219a 

38,41 



232 
321 
319 
318 
232 
320 
232 

203 
296 

189 

4 

2 



SHUSTER, 

Louis, 77 

SIBLEY, 

E. Blanch, 156 

George Frederick, 156 

SICKANEECK, 

, Intro 



SILKWORTH, 



Aria, 

Minerva, 

Myron, 

SIMMONS, 

Martha E., 

SIMPSON, 
James, 
Jay, 
R^i chard G., 

SMITH, 
Bill, 
Burr, 



214, 



266a 
116 
112 
266 

275a 

242 
214 
242 

2 

34 



Byron F., 192 

Carrie Eugenia, 275a 

Chester Merritt, 322e 

Earle Joseph, ' 322h 

Eigbert, 128 

Ella, 109 

Esther Mary, 209 

Ferdinand B., 44 

Ferdinand Burr, 133 

Harriet, 128 

Isabella, 132 

John, 109 
Joseph, 16, 98 

Laura, 129 
Lester Anderson, 322g 

Lewis, 7 

Lizzie, 109 

Lorring F. B., 328 

Lovica, 128 

Madison Wells, 276 

Mary H., 6 

Mason Morrell, 275 

Miranda L., 98 

Mr. Rev. T., 34 

Nellie May, 322f 

Nehemiah, 7 

Robert Irving, 274 

Samuel, 209 

Thomas, 241 

William, 34 

William M., 241 

Willia.m B., 7 

SOUTHWORTH, 

La Grande, 251 

SPENCER, 

Charles Edward, 157 

SPRAGUE, 

Able, 101 

Erastus, 215 

Mary, 101 

Orrin Purvis 215 
STEEDMAN, 

Margaret, 141 

Peter, 141 

STEELE, 

Bertha, 172 

David, * 53 

Ira, 171 



94 



VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



STERLING, 




THAXTER, 




Charles, 


2 


Bertha, 


289a 


STEVENS, 




THOMPSON, 




Elizabeth Jane, 


133 


Hezekiah, 


7 






William A., 


7 


ST. JOHN, 








Enoch, 


37 


THORP, 




John 0., 


38 


Hannah, 


14 


Lewis (Dea.), 


31 


TILSON, 




STOKES, 




Anna, 


119 


Rozzana, 


113 


William H., 


119 


STRATTON, 




TORRY, 




Sarah Ann, 


31 


Mary, 


55 


STREET, 




TOTHILL, 




Joseph, 


4 


Alfred, 


222 


William L, 


4 


Mariam Phillippa, 212 


STUART, 




TOWNSEND, 




Betty, 


31 


Andrew Beyers, 


213 


STURGES, 




Homer Jelliff, 


313e 


Calcina, 128 


,134 


Irene M., 


313d 


William, 2, 


7,34 


Isaac, 


213 


SV^ARTOUT, 




TRAVIS, 




Allen, 


58 


Thomas, 


206 


T 




TURREL, 






Elizabeth G., 


83 


TABOR, 




TUTTLE, 




Andrew, 


237 


Clarissa, 


16 


TANTANKENANT, 




TYRRELL, 






Lntro 


Cora, 


219a 


> 


TAYLOR, 




David Nash, 


94 


Alfred, 


2 


Isaac, 


98 


Eliphalet, 


2,4 


Isaac B., 18 


,219b 


Horace, 


42 


Joseph, 


18 


Jonothan, Sr., 


2 


Lester H., 


219c 


Julia B.^ 


42 


Lydia A,. 


92,98 


Lois, 


2.7 


^Taria Sophia, 


91 


Mercy, 


2 


Rhoda A., 


98 


Seth, 


2 


Sophia 


18 


Uriah, 


7 


William Henry, 


93 


TEFFT, 




TYSGOES, 




Polly, 


36 


Jan, 


Intro 


THATCHER, 




U 




Jonah, 


4 




Josiah, 


4 






Partridge, 


4 


UPHAM, 




Thomas T., 


4.5 


Elizabeth, 


93 



V 



VANCORT, 

Polly, 22 

VANDERBURGH, 

Cathalina Intro 

VANDERHOEVEN, 

Cornelius, Intro 

VANDOOZER, 

Hezekiah W., 4 

VANDUSEN, 



VAN HOESEN, 

Anna, 

Casper, 

Catherine, 

Cornelius, 

Frances, 

Garret, 

Geesje, 

Gerritze, 

Harmon, 

Hendrick, 

Jacob 

Jacob Jans, 

Jacob Volkert, 

Jan, 

Jan Franse, 

Jan Johannes, 

Jan Jurian, 

Jurriannes, 

Johannes, 

Luchs. 

Maria, 

Reienior, 

Reynier, 

Ryneir, 

Rynier, 

Rinder, 

Rinear 

Maria, 

Styntie, 

Teuntic, 

Volkert, 

William 

William 
VAN HOSE, 

Rineir, 



C. 

S., 



Intro 

Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 
1 
Intro 
2 
2 
latro 
Intro 
Inrro 
Intro 
In+ro 
Intro 
Intro 
Intro 



H J 6 6^ 



IiNDEX. 



95 



VAN HOOSEAR, 




Nathan Olmstead, 4,12 


Ada Ltucile, 


288 


Ophelia, 128 


Adelia, 


11 


Pamelia, 12 


A—., 


4 


Rhoda, 6 


Albert W., 


67 


Rinear, 1, 2 2 


Antionette, 


.43 


Sally, 34 


Bertie Mary, 


150 


Sally Matilda 10 


Bessie E. S., P., 


143 


Susan Caroline, 4, 14 


Blanche Maurice, 


151 


Susan Matilda, G5 


Burr Steedmau, 


2S5f 


Styles, 9 


oiiarles. 


39 


Sylvester, 42 


Clinton Quick, 


2V0 


Theresa Eighmy, 145 



David 2,3,4,7,27,36,142 

D, N., 2 

David Nash, 31, 94 

Davia Hermon, 129 | 

David Rineai', 13 I 

Ebenezer, 3/ j 

Edith Gertrude, 158 ! 

Elizabeth, 27, 4o j 

Ethel Clifft, 

Eva Thersa, 

Fletcher, 

Frances Lucele, 

Frank Adelbert, 

George Edgar, 

Harriet A., 

Harry W., 

Harold Nash., 

Harold Sibley, 

Helen Blanche, 

Henry, 

Herbert James, 

Hezekiah 

Jesse, 

John Eidwin, 

Julia, 

Julia Ann, 

Julian, 

Leroy W., 

Louisa, 

Luella Cole, 

Marcy, 

Maria, 

Mar3;aret Pierce, 

Mary. 

May R., 

Minnie Blanche, 

Nancy. 

Nancy A., 



VanHoosear & Am- 
bler, 42 
William, 38 
Wm. Kennedy, 285e 
William Sylvester 141 
Willie Reed, 74 

., 1, 7, 32, 56, 69. 

70, 179, 180, 285f 

VANHOOSE, 



VAN LUVEN, 

Lanah, 21 

VANRENSSELAER, 

Kilian, (Col.) 2 

VANRENSSEALRE, 
May King, 1 

VAN RENSELAERSWYCK, 

Kilian, i 

VAUGHN, 

Mary M., 

VILL, 

Williampie, 



W 



324 

76 
146 
157 

73 
7,41 

35 

156 

323 

288b 

139 jV, HOOSEN, 

44 1 David, 



VANHOOSER, 

Frank, 

Ga'l., 

Garret, 

John N., 

Pamelia, 

Lydia, 



75 

4, 16 

149 

140 

148 



VANHOOSEN, 

Harmen, 

Roinior, 
VAN HOSEN, 



137 VAN HOSER, 
68 Rynler, 
4.33 VAN HOUSEN, 
14 < Rinen, 
2 Ryner, 
f VAN HUSSUM, 
^^Z^\ Jan Franse, 

144 IVAN KEUREN, 

138 ! Alice. 
2 IVANOUZEN, 
66 ' Rinen, 



Intro I 
Intro I 
Intro i 
Intro I 

2 
Intro 



2 
1 

Intro 

Intro 

2 
1 

Intro 

185 



WARNER, 

Theodocia, 
WARREN, 
Levi, 

Mary Ann, 
Sally, 

WASHiNGTON, 
George (Genl.), 

WATERS, 

Amzi, 
Anna, 

V/ATSON, 

Matilda, 
WEBER, 

Nancy, 

WHEELER, 

Addle C, 

Catherine S., 

Frank, 

Minnie Frances, 

Stella M., 

Warren, 

WHELPLEY, 

Amos, 
WHITE, 



WHITEING, 

Caroline, 

WHITLOCK, 

Chloe, 

Hezekiah, 

Seth, 



190 
Intro 

20 

38 
38 

38 

1, 2 

133 
133 

270 

132 

302 
197 
197 
304 
303 
197 

7 

12 

13 

7 
4 
7 



96 



VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 



WILLARD, 




WINNER, 




Mr. , 


31 


Anna, 


246 






Benjamin, 


103 


WILLIAMS, 
J. H., 

Kathleen, 


271 
271 


Demon, 
Eathen, 
Henry, 
Nettie, 


103 

247a 

245 

247 






•J 


247b 


WILSON, 




WORTENDYKE, 




Moses, 


4 


Rhinear, 


2 



YAPLES, 

Mary, 114 

Brigham, 16 

YOUNG, 

Abraham, 7 
Anson (Capt.) 31 

Brigham, 16 



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